Guided Pathway

The images Warburg assembles in the panel, and their arrangement, refine this thesis by examining exactly which art can do the job, tracking, again, not how the Renaissance, but, rather, how the Baroque struggles – ultimately successfully – to bring these same passions – with their threat represented by the god of the Underworld Pluto’s lustful abduction of the nymph Proserpina, whose spilt basket of flowers in nearly all of the images signifies the loss that giving into such passions implies – under control.