Ekphrastic image-making in early modern Europe, 1500-1700 / edited by Arthur J. DiFuria, Walter S. Melion.

Other author DiFuria, Arthur J.
Other author Melion, Walter S.
Other author Lovis Corinth Colloquium 2019 : Emory University)
Format Electronic
Publication InfoLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2022]
Descriptionpages cm.
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SeriesIntersections : interdisciplinary studies in early modern culture, 1568-1181 ; volume 79
Contents Humanism, print, ekphrasis -- Poem, image, ekphrasis -- Sacred ekphrasis -- Ekphrastic images -- Nature, art, ekphrasis -- Global ekphrasis.
Abstract "In epideictic oratory, ekphrasis is typically identified as an advanced rhetorical exercise that verbally reproduces the experience of viewing a person, place, or thing; more specifically, it often purports to replicate the experience of viewing a work of art. Not only what was seen, but also how it was beheld, and the emotions attendant upon first viewing it, are implicitly construed as recoverable, indeed reproducible. This volume examines how and why many early modern pictures operate in an ekphrastic mode: such pictures claim to reconstitute works of art that solely survived in the textual form of an ekphrasis; or they invite the beholder to respond to a picture in the way s/he responds to a stirring verbal image; or they call attention to their status as an image, in the way that ekphrasis, as a rhetorical figure, makes one conscious of the process of image-making; or finally, they foreground the artist's or the viewer's agency, in the way that the rhetor or auditor is adduced as agent of the image being verbally produced"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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LCCN 2021046485
ISBN9789004109971 (hardback)
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