Practice question · Match the pairs
Match each concept to what it names.
- Nachleben der Antike
- Pathosformel
- The nude, in Clark's sense
- Allegory
- The body re-formed by art rather than merely unclothed
- The afterlife and return of classical forms
- A gestural formula persisting across centuries
- Figures standing for abstractions to make an argument
Hints
- Two terms are Warburg's.
- The distinction between naked and nude is Clark's.
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- Nachleben der Antike → The afterlife and return of classical forms
- Pathosformel → A gestural formula persisting across centuries
- The nude, in Clark's sense → The body re-formed by art rather than merely unclothed
- Allegory → Figures standing for abstractions to make an argument
Why
Clark's distinction is the one to hold carefully, because it formalises the tradition's own view rather than describing it neutrally, which is exactly what Berger attacked in 1972, and why the last lesson of this unit returns to it.
Practise Greco-Roman Sources II: Survival and Transformation
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