Römische Historische Mitteilungen 65/2023, pp. 605-636, 2024/05/01
Bachmann’s research community largely agrees that the author’s work has many more references to music and philosophy than to the visual arts. This article makes some clarifications and shows several connections with the visual arts by analysing Bachmann’s biography, by referring to real and fictitious artists, art genres and ti-tles mentioned in her work, as well as to the author’s visual text strategies. The main goal is to examine the reception of her work by visual artists in Italy – Cy Twombly, Elisa Montessori and Marina Bindella –, that is, the intermedial forms between literature and art. The most important terms of analysis are (a) ut pictura poesis (Horace), (b) successiviness and simultanaeity (Lessing) and (c) literary/literariness in visual arts. This shows the (a) similarities and (b) differences/borders of the two media as well as (c) their extensions in the sense of transferring the qualities of the foreign medium (literature) to its own medium (art), that is, the narrative and poetic principles.
