{"id":2034,"date":"2020-02-28T04:22:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T04:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearts.hku.hk\/dev-finearts3\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2034"},"modified":"2020-06-23T01:52:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T01:52:49","slug":"between-nature-and-culture-visualising-a-mythological-hero-in-fifteenth-century-florence","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/event\/between-nature-and-culture-visualising-a-mythological-hero-in-fifteenth-century-florence\/","title":{"rendered":"Between Nature and Culture: Visualising a Mythological Hero in Fifteenth-Century Florence"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"entry-title\">Between Nature and Culture: Visualising a Mythological Hero in Fifteenth-Century Florence<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Date: 14 April 2016 (Thursday)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Time: 4:00-5:30pm<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus<\/strong><\/p>\n<article id=\"post-4383\" class=\"post-4383 fa_events type-fa_events status-publish hentry fa_event_type-event-staff\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<div class=\"additional_information\">\n<p>In his\u00a0<em>Nicomachean Ethics<\/em>, Aristotle briefly delimits the realm of virtue by setting brutishness in opposition to superhuman virtue. This stark contrast\u2014one that retained moral dimensions in the early modern period\u2014was frequently visualised for fifteenth-century Florentine audiences in depictions of heroes doing battle with monstrous entities. Although such representations place the brutish and the superhumanly virtuous on either end of a spectrum, I argue that these types of figures also mirrored one another in significant ways. In this paper, I will consider the congruencies between the heroic and the monstrous as represented in the visual culture of Quattrocento Florence. This approach brings into relief contemporary ideas of virtue as reflected in the ambiguous status of monsters and heros, while foregrounding the unstable boundary that separated nature from culture in fifteenth-century thought.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"entry-meta\"><\/footer>\n<\/article>\n<article id=\"post-4403\" class=\"post-4403 fa_events type-fa_events status-publish hentry fa_event_type-event-staff\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\"><\/header>\n<\/article>\n<p><strong>Speaker: Victoria Ehrlich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Victoria Ehrlich is a doctoral candidate in art history at Cornell University. She is presently writing her dissertation <em>I Modelli di Virt\u00f9: Mythological Heroes in the art of Fifteenth-Century Florenc<\/em>e.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Nature and Culture: Visualising a Mythological Hero in Fifteenth-Century Florence Date: 14 April 2016 (Thursday) Time: 4:00-5:30pm Venue: Room 4.34, Run Run Shaw Tower, Centennial Campus In his\u00a0Nicomachean Ethics, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2370,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[183],"tribe_events_cat":[17],"class_list":["post-2034","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-visitingscholar","tribe_events_cat-seminars","cat_seminars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2353,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2034\/revisions\/2353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arthistory.hku.hk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}