Formula extatického pátosu vo vyobrazeniach Ludoviky v tvorbe Veroniky Rónaiovej
The Formula of Ecstatic Pathos in Depictions of Ludovika in the Work of Veronika Rónaiová

Summary/Abstract: The study contributes to interpreting the depiction of Blessed Ludovica Albertoni, which has becomean identifying feature of Veronika Rónaiová’s work. The depiction of Ludovica has its formal andsemantic antecedents in the work of the Baroque sculptor G. L. Bernini. Since 1988, she has appearedregularly in Rónaiová’s paintings, drawings on paper, on the wall, and her body. This study looks atthese depictions from the perspective of the concept of Nachleben and Pathosformeln developedby Aby Warburg and followed up by Georges Didi-Huberman with his theory of anachronism. Theconcept of Nachleben draws attention to those forms that survive and return in art as if in the eternalreturn, and in this way, survive, like Rónaiová’s Ludovika. The formula of ecstatic pathos, which isemphasized in the text, draws attention to the emotive gestures or emotional experiences that leavean artistic trace in subsequent artistic epochs. Rónaiová’s depictions of Ludovica are interpreted interms of the formula of ecstatic pathos generated by Baroque sculpture and emerging in contemporaryartistic discourse.

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