created 2025-04-29, & modified, =this.modified
Mnemosyne - the mother of the muses, the goddess of memory.
German Art Historian Aby Warburg’s last unfinished project Mnemosyne Atlas (1924-29) was a picture atlas that was arranged around the following themes:
- coordinates of memory
- Astrology and Mythology
- Archaeological Models
- Migrations of the ancient gods
- Vehicles of tradition
- Irruption of Antiquity
- Dionysiac formulae of emotions
- Nike and Fortuna
- From Muses to Manet
- Durer: the gods go North
- The age of Neptune
- “art Officiel” and the Baroque
- Re-emergence of antiquity
- The classical tradition today
Warburg certainly hoped that the beholder would respond with the same intensity to the images of passion or of suffering, of mental confusion or of serenity, as he had done in his work
Images of great symbolic, intellectual and emotion power disappear and reappear.
