Portrét a rétorika. Na margo vzťahov a súvislostí medzi rečníckymi ozdobami a formulami pátosu v ranonovovekej portrétnej teórii a praxi
Portrait and Rhetoric. On the Relationships and Connections Between Rhetorical Embellishments and Formulas of Pathos in Early Modern Portraiture Theory and Practice

Summary/Abstract: The theme of eternal returns in art and culture focuses on certain historically returning principlesthat survive in cultural society, even under new conditions, in a modified form. As one of them, thesurvival of ancient rhetoric through the centuries to the present day is one of them. The presentedtext shows the trajectories of how classical rhetoric was reactivated in the early modern period intheoretical writing on art and functionally applied to contemporary visual (especially portrait) practice. It also points to the internal parallels between the effort of German and Netherlandish painters andtheorists of art to emphasize the persuasive necessity of certain forms of dynamic movement in thepicture to Aby Warburg’s much the same ambition to identify such movement, energizing and spiritualpatterns (pathos formulas) in his paintings. Last but not least, the contribution opens a new field ofresearch into the experience of Warburgian pathos formulas in early modern portraiture.

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