Sfinire l’arte, l’arte sfinita.

Il progetto OltrePlinio per lo studio del lessico artistico greco e latino

Author: Gianfranco Adornato, Eva Falaschi

 

In: M. Collareta, M. Ferretti, S. Maffei, C.M. Sicca (a cura di), Le voci del marmo. Materiali per un lessico tecnico della scultura in marmo. 

Publisher: Pisa: Edizioni della Normale

Year: 2022

Pages: 89-108


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Description: Study of the terminology used by Greek and Roman authors (in particular Pliny the Elder, Vitruvius, Dionysos of Halicarnassus, Pausanias, and Plutarch) to describe the concept of exhausted art in sculpture and painting. The case studies of the sculptor Callimachus and the painter Dionysos of Colophon are investigated in detail.
Keywords: Pliny the Elder, Plutarch, Vitruvius, Dionysos of Halicarnassus, Pausanias, Callimachus the sculptor, Dionysos of Colophon the painter, Nicomachus the painter