The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Chapter 1 Introduction: The Figure of the Nymph in Early Modern Culture -- Part 1 Nymphs between the Visual Arts and Literature -- Chapter 2 Pleasures of the Imagination: Narrating the Nymph, from Boccaccio to Lope De Vega -- Chapter 3 Salmacis, Hermaphrodite, and the Inversion of Gender: Allegorical Interpretations and Pictorial Representations of an Ovidian Myth, ca. 1300-1770 -- Chapter 4 The Sleeping Nymph Revisited: Ekphrasis, Genius Loci and Silence -- Chapter 5 'Who, Then, is the "Nympha"?' An Iconographic Analysis of the Figure of the Maid in the Tornabuoni Frescoes -- Part 2 Literary Representations -- Chapter 6 Lamenting, Dancing, Praising: The Multilayered Presence of Nymphs in Florentine Elegiac Poetry of the Quattrocento -- Chapter 7 An Epiphanic Figure with the Power to Bind: Lia's Role in Boccaccio's Comedia delle ninfe fiorentine -- Chapter 8 Renaissance Nymphs as Intermediaries in Early Modern German Territorial Politics -- Chapter 9 Discursive Sisters of the Arts, Raw Material of Inspiration: The Early Pegnitz Flower Society's Nymphs -- Part 3 Garden Architecture -- Chapter 10 The Mediality of the Nymph in the Cultural Context of Pirro Visconti's Villa at Lainate -- Chapter 11 Nymphs Bathing in the King's Garden: La Granja de San Ildefonso and Caserta -- Part 4 Music -- Chapter 12 Venez plorer ma desolation: Lamenting and Mourning Nymphs in Culture and Music around 1500 -- Chapter 13 The Nymph's Voice as an Acoustic Reflection of the Self -- Part 5 Aetiology and Antiquarianism -- Chapter 14 Founding Sisters: Nymphs and Aetiology in Humanist Latin Poetry -- Chapter 15 Our White Ladies on the Graves: Historicisations of Nymphs in Early Modern Antiquarianism -- Index Nominum.

This volume seeks to uncover the multifarious roles played by nymphs in literature, drama, music, the visual arts, garden architecture, and indeed intellectual culture tout court, and thereby explore the true significance of this well-known figure for the early modern age.

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