Book contents
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Moderns
- Part II Ancients
- Five The Styles of Mimesis
- Six Storytelling and the “Illusive Similitude of Life”
- Seven Ceremonial Images and the “Amplification of Good Things”
- Eight Portraits Civic and Sacred
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Five - The Styles of Mimesis
from Part II - Ancients
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 August 2024
Book contents
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique Art
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Moderns
- Part II Ancients
- Five The Styles of Mimesis
- Six Storytelling and the “Illusive Similitude of Life”
- Seven Ceremonial Images and the “Amplification of Good Things”
- Eight Portraits Civic and Sacred
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter Five considers the definition of mimesis in the visual arts to argue that ancient ideas of visual imitation encompassed a wide range of styles, among them formal solutions modern observers would consider abstract. It posits that the stylistic language deployed by Hermogenes of Tarsus in his rhetorical treatise Peri Ideon can be applied to the description of late antique visual art.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Style and Meaning in Late Antique ArtAncients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking, pp. 99 - 124Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024