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SUMMARY:Online | James Loeb Lecture 2021 // Barbara Baert: How Kairos transformed into Occasio (Grisaille\, School of Mantegna\, 1495-1510)
DESCRIPTION:This lecture features a grisaille fresco depicting the Kai
 ros/Occasio motif (Museo della Città nel Palazzo di San Sebastiano in
  Mantua). The grisaille illuminates a historical juncture in which the
  Fortuna/Occasio motif fascinated families of art patrons such as the 
 Gonzagas\, Sforzas and Estes. The hybrid forms arose with the new\, hu
 manist understanding of human destiny. Likewise\, the Mantuan grisaill
 e embodies a modern depiction of mankind and its responsibility to soc
 iety. The grasping of the moment in the fresco allows us to grasp what
  ‘opportunity’ embodied for 15th -century aesthetics and ethics (f
 leeing\, nymphean\, steady\, motion\, immobility\, youth). [...]
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