Practice question · Estimate
Roughly how many centuries separate the Greek maenad poses Warburg studied from their Baroque reappearances?
Estimate on a scale from 0 centuries (0) to 30 centuries (30).
Hints
- Greek relief sculpture against seventeenth-century painting.
- On the order of twenty centuries.
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20 (answers within ±6 count)
Why
On the order of twenty centuries. The number is what makes the observation remarkable: a configuration of the body transmitted across two thousand years, through copies, engravings and other artists' drawings, arriving intact in form and reversed in meaning.
Practise Greco-Roman Sources II: Survival and Transformation
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