Ekphrastic Image-Making in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1700

by Arthur J. DiFuria (Savannah College of Art and Design) and Walter S. Melion (Emory University)

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004109978
• ISBN13: 9789004109971
• Release Date: December 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 884 Pages