engramma - atlante di Aby Warburg

Mnemosyne Atlas B

From the Cosmos to Man and back

Human need for representation of and connection with the cosmos is expressed in the projection of images and influences of the cosmos on Man: a harmonic connection between cosmos and man is established. During the Renaissance this harmony is represented logically and geometrically (Leonardo da Vinci), as well as magically and daemonically.

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Notes by Aby Warburg (1929)

Mikrokosmos

Microcosmos.

Notes by Aby Warburg and coll. (1929)

Verschiedene Grade der Abtragung des kosmischen Systems auf den Menschen. Harmonikale Entsprechung. Später Reduktion der Harmonie auf die abstrakte Geometrie statt auf die kosmisch bedingte (Lionardo).

Different degrees in the application of the cosmic system to mankind. Harmonic correspondence. Later reduction of harmony to abstract rather than cosmically contingent geometry (Leonardo).

Further Readings

♦ Seminario Mnemosyne, Dal cosmo all'uomo e ritorno: lettura di Tavola B dell'Atlante Mnemosyne, “La Rivista di Engramma” 138, settembre/ottobre 2016, 27-44; previous versions: “La Rivista di Engramma” 34, giugno/luglio 2004, 31-42; “La Rivista di Engramma” 10, luglio 2001.

♦ V. Cirlot, La visión cósmica de Hildegard von Bingen (folio 9r del manuscrito de Lucca), “La Rivista di Engramma” 138, settembre/ottobre 2016, 45-58.

♦ S. De Laude, “Symbol tut wohl!”. Il simbolo fa bene! Genesi del blocco ABC del Bilderatlas Mnemosyne di Aby Warburg, “La Rivista di Engramma” 125, marzo 2015, 30-79.

♦ Seminario Mnemosyne, Through the Maze: Plates A B and C. The opening themes of Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas, English translation by E. Thomson, “La Rivista di Engramma” 125, marzo 2015, 18-29; a first compendium in “La Rivista di Engramma” 12, novembre 2001.

♦ Seminario Mnemosyne, Letture grafiche di Tavola B, “La Rivista di Engramma” 34, giugno/luglio 2002; a first compendium: “La Rivista di Engramma” 10, luglio 2001 [OLD LAYOUT].

1.The man in the circle of the cosmic powers. Representation of a vision of Saint Ildegarda of Bingen (XII sec.) [KBW caption], from Hildegard von Bingen, Liber divinorum operum, ms. 1942, early 13th Century, cod. 1942, fol. 9r, Lucca, Biblioteca Governativa.

2. Eracle as dominator of the world and the correspondences between his limbs and astrological signs [KBW caption], ms. gr. 2419, 15th century, fol. 1r, Paris, Bibliothèque National.

3. Jean e Paul Limbourg, Homo zodiacalis, from Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, ms. 65, post 1417, fol. 14v, Chantilly, Musée Condé.

4. Indications for the bloodlettings, from Verbesserter Hamburger Historienkalender, 1724.

5. Subdivision of the human body based on the astrological signs to perform bloodlettings (German manuscript of the 15th Century) [KBW caption], Illustration of Astrological Man from a manuscript, cod. lat. misc. 19414, 13th Century, fol. 188v, München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

6. Leonardo da Vinci,The proportions of the human body, drawing 1485-1490, Venezia, Gallerie dell’Accademia.

7. The ideal proportions of the human body according to Dürer [KBW caption], Hans von Kulmbach, Study of the human proportions, pen drawing, 1513, Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Kupferstichkabinett.

8. Bloodletting in the right and wrong moments and them consequences (calendar, Basilea 1499) [KBW caption], illustration from Lienhart Ysenhut’s incunabulum (detail), xylography, 1499, Basel, Universitätsbibliothek.

9. The ”planetary man" according to Agrippa von Nettesheim (1510) [KBW caption], engraving from Agrippa von Nettesheim, De occulta philosophia, 1533 Book II, chapter XXVII.

10. Subdivision of the hand based on Agrippa von Nettesheim's planets (1510) [KBW caption], engraving from Agrippa von Nettesheim, De occulta philosophia, 1533 Book II, chapter XXVII.