Wonderful, thank you! As usual, your speed continues to amaze and awe.
Much of this had turned up in my research, but there were some interesting new things, especially:
Our author points out that in the same room, there were a lot of depictions of loyal soldiers giving their lives for their lords. Which context also can be seen in the light of Prussia's increasing series of military disasters and the need to boost up morale.
I knew he'd put it near his personal rooms and changed the iconography from homoerotic to self-sacrifice to one's emperor, but not how he'd done it. Evolving iconography in an art historical context is a particular, albeit casual, interest of mine. (It was easier when I could look at art history books, which do not lend themselves well to e-books and are thus almost never converted, and cost a million dollars when they are.)
Once he'd decided to buy the statue, Fritz was micromanaging the transport etc.
Did not know that, should have predicted it. ;)
Knew about Eugene being one of the previous owners but not the immediately preceding owner, did not know about Philippsburg (remember, Voltaire was also at Philippsburg!) or Wenzel (or rather, I suspect I had immediately forgotten everything I skimmed about Wenzel).
Had either never learned or forgotten that it was named Ganymede during the Paris years. When you say "by which point" do you mean it was renamed by the French, or that the Prussians had already renamed it?
In a letter sealed with a seal showing Alexander the Great. Which he never used before or after. Gay iconography: we have it.
Did not know this! Oh, man. That's awesome. So is the quote from Liselotte. Liselotte would know!
He also provides context by naming the books on Hadrian and Antinuous available to Fritz at the time, as proven via the Sanssouci library.
Care to share? I think they were named in the article that drew heavily on this monograph that's in our library, but it's possible the article author was not comprehensive. I think I remember that Fritz had annotated or underlined or otherwise marked the Antinous passage in one of the books, thereby confirming that he knew and was interested in this story specifically?
Our author definitely ascribes to the "homage to Katte" theory.
You know, Fritz, I understand you were badly traumatized, but it would be helpful for us if you could *talk* about these things. Anyway, it remains my headcanon.
Thank you ever so much for the reader's report! I will at some point do an Antinous write-up for Rheinsberg. Which cahn did not at all predict would help push chronologies off the first page of results. :P.
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Re: Antinous - The Reader's Report
Date: 2020-01-29 07:01 pm (UTC)Much of this had turned up in my research, but there were some interesting new things, especially:
Our author points out that in the same room, there were a lot of depictions of loyal soldiers giving their lives for their lords. Which context also can be seen in the light of Prussia's increasing series of military disasters and the need to boost up morale.
I knew he'd put it near his personal rooms and changed the iconography from homoerotic to self-sacrifice to one's emperor, but not how he'd done it. Evolving iconography in an art historical context is a particular, albeit casual, interest of mine. (It was easier when I could look at art history books, which do not lend themselves well to e-books and are thus almost never converted, and cost a million dollars when they are.)
Once he'd decided to buy the statue, Fritz was micromanaging the transport etc.
Did not know that, should have predicted it. ;)
Knew about Eugene being one of the previous owners but not the immediately preceding owner, did not know about Philippsburg (remember, Voltaire was also at Philippsburg!) or Wenzel (or rather, I suspect I had immediately forgotten everything I skimmed about Wenzel).
Had either never learned or forgotten that it was named Ganymede during the Paris years. When you say "by which point" do you mean it was renamed by the French, or that the Prussians had already renamed it?
In a letter sealed with a seal showing Alexander the Great. Which he never used before or after. Gay iconography: we have it.
Did not know this! Oh, man. That's awesome. So is the quote from Liselotte. Liselotte would know!
He also provides context by naming the books on Hadrian and Antinuous available to Fritz at the time, as proven via the Sanssouci library.
Care to share? I think they were named in the article that drew heavily on this monograph that's in our library, but it's possible the article author was not comprehensive. I think I remember that Fritz had annotated or underlined or otherwise marked the Antinous passage in one of the books, thereby confirming that he knew and was interested in this story specifically?
Our author definitely ascribes to the "homage to Katte" theory.
You know, Fritz, I understand you were badly traumatized, but it would be helpful for us if you could *talk* about these things. Anyway, it remains my headcanon.
Thank you ever so much for the reader's report! I will at some point do an Antinous write-up for Rheinsberg.
Which cahn did not at all predict would help push chronologies off the first page of results. :P.