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From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus

From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus Babette BabichFrom Winckelmann’s Apolloto Nietzsche’s DionysusEs giebt keine schöne Fläche ohne eine schreckliche Tiefe.(Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachlass 1870/1871)1 Paradigms and ClassicsPerhaps the most significant dissonance of several such regarding the Laocoön groupPliny famously reports seeing in the house of the Emperor Titus (NH 36.37–38)1 is thatthe marble statue, presumably, so Bernard Andreae reasonably argues, modeled on aGreek bronze original, was said to have been hewn from a single stone.2 Yet the Laocoönassociated with Johann Joachim Winkelmann, unearthed in 1506, was not formed froma single block of marble (ex uno lapide).3 – A second dissonance concerns color. I haveelsewhere written on ancient Greek bronzes, specifically the life-size variety, callingattention to their abundance, likewise as cited in Pliny, reviewing the conditions oftheir manufacture in such abundance, and like statues of marble, wood, ceramic, etc.,bronze was differently colored, depending on how it was made, as on its various constituents, given the overall phenomenon of polychromy. Thus the Vergilius Vaticanus(ca. 400 CE) depicts Laocoön with a bright red cape unfurling above the priest’s head,standing erect with one knee on an altar. In this image, two green snakes encircle botharms raised in alarm, crossing his chest, the snakes entwine two baby sons danglingat either side, tinier http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Nietzscheforschung de Gruyter

From Winckelmann’s Apollo to Nietzsche’s Dionysus

Babich, Babette
Nietzscheforschung , Volume 24 (1): 26 – Aug 28, 2017
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Babette BabichFrom Winckelmann’s Apolloto Nietzsche’s DionysusEs giebt keine schöne Fläche ohne eine schreckliche Tiefe.(Friedrich Nietzsche, Nachlass 1870/1871)1 Paradigms and ClassicsPerhaps the most significant dissonance of several such regarding the Laocoön groupPliny famously reports seeing in the house of the Emperor Titus (NH 36.37–38)1 is thatthe marble statue, presumably, so Bernard Andreae reasonably argues, modeled on aGreek bronze original, was said to have been hewn from a single stone.2 Yet the Laocoönassociated with Johann Joachim Winkelmann, unearthed in 1506, was not formed froma single block of marble (ex uno lapide).3 – A second dissonance concerns color. I haveelsewhere written on ancient Greek bronzes, specifically the life-size variety, callingattention to their abundance, likewise as cited in Pliny, reviewing the conditions oftheir manufacture in such abundance, and like statues of marble, wood, ceramic, etc.,bronze was differently colored, depending on how it was made, as on its various constituents, given the overall phenomenon of polychromy. Thus the Vergilius Vaticanus(ca. 400 CE) depicts Laocoön with a bright red cape unfurling above the priest’s head,standing erect with one knee on an altar. In this image, two green snakes encircle botharms raised in alarm, crossing his chest, the snakes entwine two baby sons danglingat either side, tinier

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Published: Aug 28, 2017

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