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Fortuna (Roman deity). --- Literature, Medieval --- History and criticism.

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The author discusses the Mantuan fresco’s key position in the iconographic Nachleben of the Kairos/Occasio figure, and the way the theme was accustomed in the Quattrocento and the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The ancient Greeks had a name for the joy as well as the sorrow of an occasion that suddenly presents itself, but disappears just as swiftly: kairos, or in Latin occasio. Using the Mantua grisaille as starting point and leading motif, Barbara Baert guides us in her own intriguing way through the history of the representation of this figure in art. How did the archaic Greek Kairos model survive in the Quattrocento? Which appearances did Kairos take on along the way and how can we explain his mutations? The author shows us how the semantic and rhetorical expansion of the concept kairos/occasio brought about gender switches and conflations with other personifications of time and fate. Grasping the lock of hair of Kairos/Occasio, spinning the wheel of fortune of Tyche/Fortuna, acting as the mast of the ship and holding the billowing sails, she steers us through depictions of the motionlessness of the moment throughout history before dropping anchor in the fascinating vocabulary of Aby Warburg. During this journey, she invites us to go offshore looking for a new critical moment that presents itself as a powerful opening of possibilities.

Kairos (The Greek word) --- Fortuna [Roman deity] --- Grisaille painting --- Warburg, Aby --- Iconography --- grisaille --- iconography --- personification --- Mantegna, Andrea

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Fortuna (Roman deity) --- German literature --- Baroque literature --- Emblems --- Fortuna (Divinité romaine) --- Littérature allemande --- Littérature baroque --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique

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Comparative literature --- Thematology --- anno 500-1499 --- Fortuna (Roman deity) in literature. --- Fate and fatalism in literature. --- Literature, Medieval --- Fortuna (Divinité romaine) dans la littérature --- Destin et fatalisme dans la littérature --- Littérature médiévale --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- fortune (allégorie) --- littérature française --- Fortune in literature --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Fortuna --- In literature --- Fortuna (Divinité romaine) dans la littérature --- Destin et fatalisme dans la littérature --- Littérature médiévale --- Literature, Medieval - History and criticism --- Fortuna - (Roman deity) - In literature --- Fortuna - (Roman deity)