#ernst robert curtius

[aliennasaprincess]

To be sure, every conceptual attempt to circumscribe the essence of great art is a makeshift.

Ernst Robert Curtius, European literature and the latin middle ages

[fabiansteinhauer]

[aliennasaprincess]

Those who love Antiquity in all its periods and styles (a love which is certainly less common than might be supposed) are precisely those who will feel its apotheosis as the "classical" to be empty and misleading pedantry.

Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin middle ages

[aliennasaprincess]

In messianically and apocalyptically excited periods, faded symbolic figures can be filled with new life, like shades' which have drunk blood.

Erst Robert Curtius, European literature and the Latin middle ages

[aliennasaprincess]

The opposition of generations is one of the conflicts of all tempestuous periods, whether they are under the sign of a new spring flowering or of an autumnal decline

Ernst Robert Curtius, European literature and the Latin middle ages

[laeternidadporlosastros]

“Cuando la escolástica habla de la belleza, se refiere a un atributo de Dios. La metafísica de la belleza (por ejemplo de Plotino) nada tiene que ver con la teoría del arte. El hombre “moderno” tiende a sobreestimar las artes plásticas porque ha perdido el sentido de la belleza inteligible que tenían el neoplatonismo y la Edad Media. Sero te amaui, pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam noua, sei o te amaui, dice San Agustín a Dios (Confesiones, X , x x v ii, 38), refiriéndose a un tipo de belleza extraño a la estética.”

Ernst Robert Curtius

[mnstudio]

Carlo Ginzburg e Proust

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[rodrigogurgel-blog]

“A vida inculta é barbárie, mas a cultura desvitalizada, isto é, desligada da vida, é bizantinismo.”

– Ernst Robert Curtius, no ensaio dedicado a Ortega y Gasset