Ecstasy
Visions of passion, spirituality, and rapture in artBy Hans-Jürgen Döpp
Length44m
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The climax to the act of love casts an indefinable expression on the face – an expression of urgent intensity. A woman, a man, in that moment experiences an ecstasy that for an instant is visible in the eyes and on the lips. A wave of pleasure runs through the body, marking the transition between desire and orgasm. For this fleeting second, when just how violent the senses can be is laid bare, the person involved is not the same as the person immediately before or the person immediately after. With the help of prints and etchings from former centuries, author Hans-Jürgen Döpp looks for an explanation of this very personal mystery that leads to fulfilment.
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Length44 mins
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Publish dateJul 15, 2019
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
21. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Venus and Cupid, 1509. Oil on canvas, 170 x 84 cm. The Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg.
32. John Collier, Lilith, 1887. Oil on canvas. The Atkinson Gallery, Southport, Lancs.
43. Philip Burne-Jones, The Vampire, 1897.
54. Sandro Botticelli, The Madonna of the Presentiment (detail), 1482. Uffizi, Florence.
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65. Miniature illustration for Boccaccio’s Decameron, 14th century.
76. Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger, 1840. Watercolour.
87. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Lucretia, 1533. Collection of the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna.
98. Julie Mangenet Cameron, St Agnes, 1864. London.
109. Anonymous French etching.
1110. Rojan, Springtime Idyll, 1934.
1211. Franz von Stuck, Salome, 1906. Oil on canvas. Municipal Gallery of Lenbachhaus, Munich.
1312. Armand Petitjean, pastel drawings 1946–1947.
1413. Armand Petitjean, pastel drawings 1946–1947.
1514. Anonymous photo.
1615. François Boucher, Le Repos de la Volupté, 1748.
1716. Auguste Rodin, Le Cercle des Amours (The Circle of Lovers), around 1880. Graphite, pen, sepia ink wash and gouache on ruled paper, 19.5 x 15.1 cm. Rodin Museum, Paris.
1817. Rudolf Schlichter, Free and Easy, 1920s.
1919. Colbet, etched colour engraving.
2020. Volupté, 19th century. Photo.
2121. Gustav Klimt, Scene in a Dream, 1911. Watercolour and pencil. Museum of Modern Art, New York.
2222. Gustav Klimt, Women Seated With Her Legs Apart, 1916–1917. Pencil on japan paper.
2323. Franz von Bayros, The Garden of Aphrodite, from Drawings of Love, 1907.
2424. Gustav Klimt, Two Lovers, 1914.
2525. Gustav Klimt, Couple, 1914. Pencil.
2626. Jules Duboscq, Second Empire. Daguerreotype.
2727. Simon Solomon, Sappho and Erinna in the Garden of Mitylene, 1864. Watercolour.
2828. Coloured shunga (‘Images of Spring’).
2929. Anonymous. Daguerreotype.
3030. Berthomme Saint André, illustration from Gamiani. 1930s.
3131. Amedeo Modigliani, Nude. Bridgeman Art Library, London.
3232. Anonymous, Homoerotic Scene, 1930s. Paris.
3333. Egon Schiele, Sapphic Couple, 1911.
3434. Aubrey Beardsley, How Sir Tristram Drank the Love Philtre, illustration for Le Morte D’Arthur, 1893. Ink drawing.
3535. French postcard, end of the 19th century.
3636. Franz von Stuck, The Kiss of the Sphinx, 1895. Oil on canvas. Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.
3737. Satyr and Maenad, from Pompeii, 1st century AD.
3838. Peter Fendi, Sequence of Erotic Scenes, 1835.
3939. Erotic Dances, Greece, 6th century BC..
4040 - 41. Rojan, Springtime Idyll, 1934.
4142. Félix-Jacques Antoine Moulin, 1851–1854. Coloured Daguerreotype.
4243. Giovanni Zuin, Seated Nude.
4344. Amorous Couple. Marble relief based on a Greek motif.
4445. Indian miniature.
4546. The Kama Sutra.
4647. Coloured shunga (‘Images of Spring’).
4748. Mural depicting De Figuris Veneris (‘The Forms of Love’).
4849. Selected engravings from the series entitled The Various Forms of Love, around 1920.
4950. Jean Auguste Dominque Ingres, Couple Together on a Bed.
5051. Richard Guino, erotic drawings.
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