![]() I take these definitions from the second “room” of the online exhibition of the collective Clusterduck, called Hype and Fame, which collects some works that ponder upon the relationship between Internet culture, the reputational economy and the attractiveness of digital capitalism. It is therefore understood that glory is a promise and a hope: today we affirm what we would like to be reminded of us in the future.Ī much less pompous and definitely more venal version of glory is the hype, an American slang term that in the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century indicated a scam, or a surge in prices, or a story with exaggerated features, while in the 1950s it became a synonym for exaggerated publicity. On the other hand, under the heading "glory", the girl is wearing a golden crown, also with a trumpet in her hand, "an indication of the prize that every famous man deserves." The symbolism of the reputation synthesized by Ripa selects iconographic elements taken from Virgil and Ovid, and indicates the confidence in a future survival of the reputation of emperors and nobles (and also of the poets themselves, who glorify in their poetry the mythical and historical deeds of Rome). ![]() ![]() In Cesare Ripa’s Iconology there are two personifications of "reputation": under the heading "fame" we find a young woman dressed in a succinct way, portrayed while moving precipitously with wings and a body studded with eyes, mouths and ears, in her right hand she holds a golden trumpet.
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