Geschichte(n) um Cabanels Naissance de Vénus von 1863: Körper als Text und Bild

• Autores: Gabriele Genge
• Localización: Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte, ISSN 0044-2992, Vol. 65, Nº. 2, 2002, págs. 221-231
• Idioma: alemán
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• Resumen

  • Alexandre Cabanel's treatment of the female body in his 1863 art pompier painting Naissance de Vénus (Birth of Venus), now in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, showing a nude Venus resting on the waves, allows for contradictory readings. On the one hand, the work features many references to the mythic figure of Venus, whose corporeality is meant to be fictive. It thus meets the requirements of the grand art of history painting and presents an idealized nude in a mythological setting. On the other hand, this traditional aesthetic view of antiquity is challenged by a different conception of time: The body of Venus is subject to its own natural temporality and reflects modern biological criteria.