Encore la Gorgone
How to represent the image of an unbearable image? Just by a metaimage: a reflection, the image of an impossible vision (the gaze of the Gorgon) in the image by the painters of vase and ekphrasis. This paper offers an iconic route between texts (Lucian, Apollodoros, Philostratus) and paintings of It...
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| description | How to represent the image of an unbearable image? Just by a metaimage: a reflection, the image of an impossible vision (the gaze of the Gorgon) in the image by the painters of vase and ekphrasis. This paper offers an iconic route between texts (Lucian, Apollodoros, Philostratus) and paintings of Italiot and Attic vases (in particular by the Pan Painter), as narrative and reflexive evidence, which decline available strategies to finally “let watch”, around the beheading of Medusa, at the gaze of the Gorgon. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-44c2f5e3e90c4a3dba4620f819546a692024-12-09T15:50:57ZfraCentre d´Histoire et Théorie des ArtsImages Re-Vues1778-38012020-12-01910.4000/imagesrevues.8852Encore la GorgoneFrançoise Frontisi-DucrouxHow to represent the image of an unbearable image? Just by a metaimage: a reflection, the image of an impossible vision (the gaze of the Gorgon) in the image by the painters of vase and ekphrasis. This paper offers an iconic route between texts (Lucian, Apollodoros, Philostratus) and paintings of Italiot and Attic vases (in particular by the Pan Painter), as narrative and reflexive evidence, which decline available strategies to finally “let watch”, around the beheading of Medusa, at the gaze of the Gorgon.https://journals.openedition.org/imagesrevues/8852iconographyGorgonekphrasisPan PainterSouth Italian ceramics |
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| title | Encore la Gorgone |
| title_full | Encore la Gorgone |
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| title_short | Encore la Gorgone |
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| topic | iconography Gorgon ekphrasis Pan Painter South Italian ceramics |
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