Jean Seznec

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Jean Seznec (19 March 1905, in

Western art
.

Career

Seznec won a place at the

Encyclopédiste Denis Diderot between 1759–1781, an important primary resource for understanding the history of taste. A conference was held in his memory at the Warburg Institute in 2000.[3]

Thanks largely to Seznec,[

magic or allegorized as moral emblems. They surviving in pictorial and in literary traditions and among the common people went underground to feature in folk culture, took on strange new guises and were transformed in various ways, their myths recast to suit some of the mythic saints of late antiquity. Their imagery permeated Medieval intellectual and emotional life. The transformed mythology re-emerged in the iconography of the early Tuscan Renaissance
, with new attributes that the ancients had never imagined, and enjoyed tremendous renewed popularity during the Renaissance.

Seznec's work benefits from the illustrated formats it has been receiving in modern paperback formats. Studies such as

Christian iconography
and doctrines.

Works

  • La survivance des dieux antiques. Essai sur le rôle de la tradition mythologique dans l’humanisme et dans l’art de la Renaissance (Studies of the Warburg Institute, 11), London: The Warburg Institute 1940; 2nd ed. Paris: Flammarion 1980, repr. 1993
    • English tr.: The survival of the pagan gods. The mythological tradition and its place in Renaissance humanism and art. Tr. Barbara F. Sessions, New York 1953, repr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP 1972, 1995
    • German tr.: Das Fortleben der antiken Götter. Die mythologische Tradition im Humanismus und in der Kunst der Renaissance. Tr. H. Jatho, 1990
    • Spanish tr. : Los dioses de la Antigüedad en la Edad Media y en el Renacimiento. Tr. Juan Aranzadi, Taurus, Madrid 1983

See also

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1093/fs/XXXVIII.4.505
    . Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  2. ^ Sorensen, Lee. "Seznec, Jean". Dictionary of Art Historians. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  3. ISBN 9780854811441 WorldCat

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