Nude Venus: nudity between modesty and horror

Abstract: The text analyses the Renaissance corporal construction approached, over all, in the works of two art historians: Aby Warburg and Georges Didi-Huberman. Sandro Botticelli's paintings are presented as images motto. The study departs from the impenetrable white body of the Birth of Venus and problematizes the horror of the image, apparently only marked by modesty. Warburg and Didi-Huberman discuss the Dionysian pathos in the image from the mythical texts of Homer and Poliziano. Lastly, it is discussed the image of the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti with the purpose of considering the open body concealed by the enclosed body in the Italian Renaissance of the arts.

摘要：总体而言，本研究以两位艺术史学家——阿比·瓦尔堡（Aby Warburg）与乔治·迪迪-于贝尔曼（Georges Didi-Huberman）的相关论著为依托，剖析文艺复兴时期的肉体建构议题。桑德罗·波提切利（Sandro Botticelli）的画作被视作箴言式图像（image motto）。本研究以《维纳斯的诞生》（The Birth of Venus）中难以参透的纯白肉体为切入点，对这一仅以羞涩为外在标识的图像所蕴含的图像恐怖（horror of the image）展开问题化反思。瓦尔堡与迪迪-于贝尔曼立足于荷马与波利齐亚诺（Poliziano）的神话文本，剖析该图像中的酒神式悲情（Dionysian pathos）。最后，本文以《纳斯塔焦·德格利·奥内斯蒂的故事》（Story of Nastagio degli Onesti）为研究对象，旨在探讨意大利文艺复兴艺术中被封闭肉体所遮蔽的开放肉体这一议题。