28-04-2021, 07:28 PM
It's funny how ingrained is the idea that the pages of the nude ladies of the VM form a biological section. I heard an interview with Paula Zyats, Beinecke's assistant chief conservator, in which she takes it for granted.
A university is supposed to expand knowledge, but not even the University of Yale seems interested in doing so in this case. Not that I say so. Someone as accredited in iconology as Erwin Panofsky already said that there was no biological section, that the nude ladies were astral spirits.
But it seems that the great research that was done in the 20th century is worthless. I fear that also in the XXII century future researchers will start from scratch, as if nothing was known. It's like stubbornness in ignorance.
A university is supposed to expand knowledge, but not even the University of Yale seems interested in doing so in this case. Not that I say so. Someone as accredited in iconology as Erwin Panofsky already said that there was no biological section, that the nude ladies were astral spirits.
But it seems that the great research that was done in the 20th century is worthless. I fear that also in the XXII century future researchers will start from scratch, as if nothing was known. It's like stubbornness in ignorance.