The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance by Joscelyn Godwin

Author:Joscelyn Godwin
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781609259150
Publisher: Red Wheel Weiser

The vitality of dumb, primordial matter is also expressed in the following sequence of rooms; the large vegetal festoon made from spugna, coral, and shells which surrounds the opening into the little grotto of Venus reveals, to the attentive eye, the visible presence of male and female sexual symbols, cleverly masked so as to appear as fruits and vegetables. In the “grotticella” the shapes in terra cotta, formerly colored azure and glazed, allude to the world of Eros with the celebration of the loves of Zeus with Danaë and Leda, alternating with figures of nude river demigods and groups of little erotes, busy with their games or sunk in a knowing sleep. The iconography of the Ferdinandean epoch halted the spread of sculptural and pictorial representations that alluded to the primordial world and to Eros's generative force of life.48

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