Nympha: a changing paradigm for dance iconography

Abstract

Aby Warburg recognizes and gives name of Ninfa to Pathosformel as epistemological model, typological picture. Influenced by contemporary studies on linguistics and Omero poetry forms (Parry, Curtius, Jolles), this figure shows much more trace of the fin de siècle imagery: the femme fatale and Goethe Ewigweibliches time. This contribution intends to describe seismography of Ninfa corresponding through short-circuit between Renaissance and Decadentism. A new study impulse and application model to dance Iconography.