Le alternative del Moderno, Raffaello e Manet. Lettura di Mnemosyne Atlas, Tavola 55

In this contribution Filippo Perfetti and Giulia Zanon present the result of the research of Seminario Mnemosyne on Mnemosyne Atlas, Panel 55, The Judgement of Paris: Rise and Fall of the Gods. Starting from Warburg’s texts, this essay aims to reconstruct the genealogy that, from the Roman sarcophagi representing the Judgement of Paris, leads to Manet’s Déjeuner sur l’herbe, passing through Marcantonio Raimondi’s engraving Judgement of Paris from Raphael’s lost original. This reading opens up to fundamental issues in Warburg’s thought, such as the study of clothing as a symptom of a certain historical era and the warburgian concept of Pathosformel.