The Animated Image : : Roman Theory on Naturalism, Vividness and Divine Power / / Stijn Bussels.
Many Romans wrote about the belief that an image - a sculpture or painting, as well as a verbal description or a personage on stage - is not a representation, but the image’s prototype or that an image had particular aspects of life. A first group of authors explained these believes as incorrect obs...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Architecture, Design and Arts 2000 - 2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin : : Akademie Verlag, , [2013] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studien aus dem Warburg-Haus ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Naturalism and Animation: Pliny's Anecdotes on Art
- Enargeia as Epistemological Requirement and Rhetorical Virtue: Quintilian on Vividness
- Creation and Impact of Art, Literature and speech: Callistratus' on the statue of a Bacchante
- Life and Animation in Dance, Theatre and Spectacle: Lucian's the Dance
- Cult statues at the Boundaries of Humanity: Plutarch on Supernatural Animation
- Epilogue: Erotic Reactions to Praxiteles' Cnidian Aphrodite
- Back Matter