NYMPHE (WIND). DER RAUM ZWISCHEN MOTIV UND AFFEKT IN DER FRUEHEN NEUZEIT (ZUGLEICH EIN BEITRAG ZUR ABY WARBURG-FORSCHUNG)

The presence and importance of the nymph in the late medieval and early modern art goes beyond the fashionable adaptation of a classicizing motif. None less than Aby Warburg (1866 – 1929) was the one who developed a passion for the godly girl, wandering to the bucolic springs and caves, whose name etymologically refers to a "bride". However, it isn't the iconographic afterlife of the nymph that is addresses by this study, but the question of her visual identity in the early humanism. This question opens a discourse on a movement and wind in visual media, on the effect of the nymph on the viewer and on the (self-) reflection of the visual arts, especially painting.