title: The Correggio Code: In Search of the Nepenthes Lady
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metadata.value: Pozdnev, Michael M.
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metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:47:44Z
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metadata.value: 2024-12-02T20:47:44Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-09
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metadata.value: Pozdnev M. M. The Correggio Code: In Search of the Nepenthes Lady. Philologia Classica 2023, 18 (2), 293–320. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.211
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2023.211
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/48079
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metadata.value: The Portrait of a Lady attributed to Correggio (St Petersburg, State Hermitage, inv. no. 5555) was
  witnessed as signed with the Latin pseudonym Antonius Laetus. The inscription was still legible
  in the 70s, and the analysis of parallels confirms authenticity of the painting while also indicating
  the time of its creation — most likely in the winter 1518–1519. The identification of the sitter as
  Ginevra Rangoni accepted by the majority should not be disputed. The idea expressed by Riccardo
  Finzi more than half a century ago can moreover be supported by new arguments: not only
  the scapular and the Franciscan knot, but also the laurel, ivy, myrtle, the general expression of
  the widow bride, the full cup of charming wit as a cure for the bitterness of losses, and the reference
  to Helen of Troy — all this perfectly fits in with Ginevra’s life circumstances. Contrary to
  the authoritative opinion of Claudio Franzoni, the inscription on the cup cannot be reduced to a
  single word: besides νηπενθές it includes ἄχολο[ν], explaining the uncommon epithet, a hapax,
  and [ἐπίληθον ἁπά]ντων, marking the end of verse Od. 4. 221. Correggio reflected on the feast
  scene in Menelaus’ palace, visualized it in his creative imagination, and the viewer should turn to
  it to understand the artist’s intention. Its central character, Helen, appears to act very differently
  in the two stories told at its end. She sympathizes with the Achaeans, longs for the husband she
  left behind, and at the same time wants to destroy the warriors hidden in the belly of the wooden
  horse, among them this deserted husband of hers. Abnormal details of the second story aroused
  suspicion; it might well have been an interpolation originally belonging to Iliupersis or Little
  Iliad. However, to Correggio’s mind the text was, of course, authentic, and he perceived the contradictory
  behavior of Helen as truly homeric. Inspired by Homer, he thus created an ethically
  ambivalent female image, feasible in its duality.
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metadata.value: The present study, carried out within the framework of an RSF (Russian Science Foundation) project
  no. 23-28-00142, https://rscf.ru/project/23-28-00142/, St. Petersburg State University.
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metadata.value: en
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 18; Issue 2
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Correggio
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Portrait of a Lady
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Homer
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Renaissance painting
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek pinacograms
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Correggio Code: In Search of the Nepenthes Lady
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metadata.value: Article
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