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
Six - Storytelling and the “Illusive Similitude of Life”
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 Six looks at strategies of visual narrative in works such as the sixth-century Vienna Genesis and the fifth-century mosaic cycle in the Roman church of Santa Maria Maggiore using Hermogenes of Tarsus’s rhetorical categories of style as an interpretive model.
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- Style and Meaning in Late Antique ArtAncients and Moderns on Seeing and Thinking, pp. 125 - 155Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024