Search Results: les images ou tableaux de platte by philostratus of lemnos

Paris : Vve M. Guillemot et M. Guillemot, 1629.. Folio. 26 x 39.5cm. (8) ff., 921pp., (1) p., (23) ff. Contemporary calf covers, restored with matching goatskin spine by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov...OCLC Number: 457673221.... Numerous engravings...The Icones of Philostratus the elder and those of his younger relative and name-sake provide us with detailed rhetorical descriptions of incidents in Greek mythology as depicted by ancient artists or as the author imagined they might be depicted. The elder Philostratus particularly values realistic representation and dramatic contrasts between a central personage and surrounding figures; the younger is also concerned with the expression of emotion (he includes Medea and Marsyas among his subjects). From the time of the classical revival in the 15th century these works were of great interest to artists and historians of art. After the discovery of the wall-paintings of Herculaneum, Pompeii and other ancient sites, which revealed actual examples of… Read More