Theatre of Sexual Attraction and Psychological Destruction : The Myth of Hercules and Omphale in the Visual Arts, 1500-1800 /

The book examines the myth of Hercules and Omphale/Iole which became an important topic in the visual arts, 1500-1800. It offers an analysis of the iconography from the perspective of the history of emotions, classical and Neo-Latin philology, reception and gender studies. The early modern invention...

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Main Author: Enenkel, Karl (Author)

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Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Early Modern History and Modern History E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
Intersections ; 91.

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505 0 |t Front Matter -- Preliminary Material /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 2 Hercules and Omphale: the Myth in the Literary Tradition of Greek and Roman Antiquity and of the Middle Ages /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 3 Boccaccio's De mulieribus claris : Psychopathology of Love, Hercules's furor and Yole's Strategy of Cunning /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 4 A Bestseller of the Cranach Factory: Hercules furens as Didactic Tragicomedy of "Weiberlist" (Women's guile) and "Weibermacht" (Women's Power) /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 5A Women's Guile in Manuscript Illuminations of De mulieribus claris and 16th-Century Representations of the Myth /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 5B The Myth as Allegorical Court Satire on the Bad Ruler: Dosso Dossi (ca. 1535-1537) /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 6 Erotic Farce: Bartholomeus Spranger's Invention of the Myth as Brothel Scene (ca. 1585-1600) /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 7 The Invention of the Myth as Multimedia Entertainment: Gillis Coignet (1590-1599) /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 8 Hercules furens as Tragedy and as Comedy: Alessandro Turchi's Pendant Paintings in the Alte Pinakothek (ca. 1620) /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 9 Comedy and Courtly Decorum: Adaptations and Transformations of Spranger's Brothel Scene, 1600-1800 /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 10 How Low Can Hercules Go? - the Development of Spranger's Brothel Scene as Vulgar Farce in the 17th and 18th Centuries /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 11 Music and Madness, Furor and Frenzy: Staging the Myth as Bacchus Feast and Sacred Marriage (Statius, Ovid's Fasti ) /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 12 Hercules's Perturbatio mentis and Female Emotions of the Male Hero /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 13 Iole's/Omphale's Triumph or 'omnia vincit amor' - the Compound of Triumphant Emotions /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 14 The Humiliation of the Male: Slapstick Humour, Physical Violence /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 15 Omphale as a Moral Example of Chastity and Template for a Female Political Leader? - Simon Vouet's Comedy and Tragedy of Love /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 16 Sincere Love or Feigned Love? The Art of Creating Ambiguous Emotional Compounds and Erotic Tension /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 17 From Feigned Love to Performative Erotic Techniques: Nude Dance, Dress-Dropping, Erotic Motion, Striptease /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Chapter 18 Conclusion /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel -- Back Matter -- Bibliography /  |r Karl A.E. Enenkel. 
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