Apparitions Apparent: Ekphrasis and the Parameters of Vision in the Elder Philostratus’s Imagines

Squire, Michael

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“…64 On viewing in De Domo, see Goldhill (2001) especially 160-67. 65 The Imagines are attracting an increasing amount of scholarly attention: Conan (1987); Elsner (2000);(2007); the essays in Costantini et al (2006); Abbondanza (2008); Baumann (2011); Squire (2013). Philostratus also has Apollonius of Tyana speak about the necessity of learning to view at Life of Apollonius 2.22.…”

Section: The Reading Of Images In Porphyry's On Statuesmentioning

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Stones, wood and woven papyrus: Porphyry’s On Statues

Miles

2015

J. Hell. Stud.

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Abstract:Among the fragmentary works of the Neoplatonist philosopher Porphyry of Tyre are some reasonably substantial remains of his essay on the interpretation of cult images, On Statues (περì Ἀγαλμάτων). My study falls into two parts. Firstly, I assess the major source of our fragments, Eusebius of Caesarea’s Praeparatio Evangelica, and argue that the full text of On Statues would have looked quite different, and in particular much less Stoic, than the surviving fragments would suggest. Secondly, I turn to consider what these fragments tell us about Porphyry’s thoughts on the interpretation of images and the place of these thoughts in the wider history of viewing.

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Stones, wood and woven papyrus: Porphyry’s On Statues

Miles

2015

J. Hell. Stud.

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“…By showcasing the "alchemy of of "Beschreibung von Kunstwerken in der antiken Literatur" remains Friedländer 1912, 1-103, discussing parallel uses of "das Bild als Ausdruck eines Gedankens" on 75-83. For ancient notions of ekphrasis, see the bibliographic guides of Elsner 2002and Squire 2009, 139-50, along with Webb 2009, esp. 167-91 on the "poetics of ekphrasis" in Second Sophistic literature.…”

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“Counterfeit in Character but Persuasive in Appearance”: Reviewing theAinigmaof theTabula Cebetis

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Grethlein

2014

Classical Philology

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“…8 La écfrasis de Filóstrato, como epítome del género, da lugar a una paradoja por la cual el discurso verbal facilita e impide la visión al mismo tiempo, pero también conduce a reflexionar sobre la cuestión de hacer visible lo invisible porque, en última instancia, se trata de una interpretación que recrea aquello que describe (Elsner 1995;Squire 2013). En la práctica, la écfrasis es un sistema no conmutativo de representación verbal de una imagen visual que, en realidad, ni busca ni habilita su reproducción formal; es decir, a partir de una écfrasis de una pintura no se puede reconstruir dicha pintura (Baxandall 1985).…”

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La iconografía en la era digital: hacia una heurística para el estudio del contenido de las imágenes medievales

Cayuela

2014

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This article invites us to consider the usefulness of iconography as a method to describe the subjects represented in medieval works of art. In this study, a greater emphasis has been put on investigating the epistemological implications resulting from the use of that method, and the biases that may appear in the process of transforming images into words. The aim is to address what has been called the "semantic gap", i.e., a kind of barrier that prevents the verbal representation of a non-lexical medium, such as the visual one, in a satisfactory and undiminished way. After a brief panorama of image theory throughout the classical era, with especial reference to the rhetorical genre of ekphrasis, this study suggests that, beneath the apparent balance between the verbal and the visual media, a rivalry persists. Later on, in medieval times, a mutation occurs in the way we perceive the visual arts and the images start being considered as texts that can be read. Thanks to the prejudice implied by the statement that we can only attain knowledge through words, the image is relegated to a decorative role or, at the most, an instrument of evangelisation of the illiterate.In the discipline of medieval art history, defective uses of iconography have led to question its validity as a tool for analysis, even after the systematizing task endeavoured by Erwin Panofsky. Iconography, however, has gained new momentum thanks largely to the creation of digital collections that require iconographic principles to facilitate the recovery of visual documents. The new technologies, however, have accentuated the semantic gap between image and word, and nuanced the value of iconography, combined with indexing techniques based on controlled vocabularies and thesauri. In addition, a critical survey has been made of the most interesting projects which have undertaken the task of indexing the medieval art. Finally, it is argued that migration of iconography into the Web can be the hard core that allows medieval art history to step forward and fully enter into the domain of digital humanities.

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Apparitions Apparent: Ekphrasis and the Parameters of Vision in the Elder Philostratus’s Imagines

Cited by 42 publications

References 70 publications

Stones, wood and woven papyrus: Porphyry’s On Statues

Stones, wood and woven papyrus: Porphyry’s On Statues

“Counterfeit in Character but Persuasive in Appearance”: Reviewing theAinigmaof theTabula Cebetis

La iconografía en la era digital: hacia una heurística para el estudio del contenido de las imágenes medievales

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