Dionysos Bacchus Liber: from Mythology to Philosophy

From the 14th century onwards the European production, diffusion and consumption of wine increased dramatically. This phenomenon, in parallel with the resurgence of interest in Antiquity characteristic of the Renaissance, brought about a renewed production of images of the divinities of wine. This study day will address the various transformations of these divinities from Ancient to early modern times and their impact on early modern art and philosophy.  It accompanies the public release of a digital library of texts and a collection of over 2500 electronic images on the subject of Dionysus, Bacchus and other divinities associated with wine held at the Warburg Institute Library and Photographic Collection.

Speakers will include: Marcel Détienne (Johns Hopkins), Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute), Philippe Morel (Paris I, Institut Universitaire de France),  Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute) and Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute).

Organised by François Quiviger

10.00  Doors open - Registration

10.15 Presentation of the conference
François Quiviger (Warburg Institute)

10.30
Marcel Détienne (John Hopkins)
Echanges de masques entre Dionysos et Apollon, expérimenter en polythéismes

11.45 Coffee

12.10 Alessandro Scafi (Warburg Institute)
Lì si cantò non Bacco, non Peana: Dante and Bacchus

1.00 Lunch

2.15 Philippe Morel (Paris I, Institut Universitaire de France)
La religion du vin et le débat eucharistique au palais Farnèse de Rome

3.30 Guido Giglioni (Warburg Institute)
Dionysus, sive Cupiditas; Cupido, sive Atomus: Francis Bacon and the Nature of Desire

4.15 Coffee

4.40 Claudia Wedepohl (Warburg Institute)
Warburg, Nietzsche and the Dionysian Pathos

5.30 Concluding discussion and reception

Fees and Registration

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