Unveiling the Other: Art, Images, and Cultures

This paper is dedicated to Aby Warburg’s 1920-essay on the relationship between the Italian Renaissance and the German Renaissance in the period of the Reformation. His essay focuses on the use of propagandistic imagery at the time of Luther, in order to elucidate a historical-political and religious problem that Warburg explored against the background of the contemporary cultural debate between Germany and Italy in the years from 1915 to 1920. This was a period traumatically experienced by Warburg, and it led him to reflect, from a different perspective, on his own research focused on the “Survival of Antiquity” (Das Nachleben der Antike), in the rapport between Italian art and the art of northern Europe. It had a notable impact on his studies on the migration from East to West of the astrological tradition, presented between magic and mathematics, that permeated the religious debate of Luther’s time in and beyond Germany, in the cultural and religious clash with the Church of Rome.

Razotkrivanje Drugog: umjetnost, slike i kulture

Ovaj rad posvećen je eseju Abyja Warburga iz 1920. godine o odnosu talijanske i njemačke renesanse u razdoblju Reformacije. Njegov se esej usredotočuje na korištenje propagandnih slika u vrijeme Luthera, kako bi razjasnio povijesno-politički i religijski problem koji je istraživao u pozadini suvremene kulturne rasprave između Njemačke i Italije u godinama od 1915. do 1920. godine. To je razdoblje Warburg traumatično doživio, a ono ga je navelo da, iz drugačije perspektive, promisli o vlastitom istraživanju usredotočenom na “Nasljedovanje antike” (der Nachleben der Antike), u odnosu između talijanske umjetnosti i umjetnosti sjevera Europe. To je značajno utjecalo na njegove studije o migraciji astrološke tradicije s istoka na zapad, živućoj između magije i matematike, koja je prožimala vjerske rasprave Lutherovog vremena u i izvan Njemačke, u kulturnom i vjerskom sukobu s Rimskom Crkvom.