Imagines / Philostratus. Callistratus, Descriptions ; with an English translation by Arthur Fairbanks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century.

Contributor:

Philostratus, the Lemnian, active 3rd century.

Philostratus, the Lemnian, approximately 190-

Fairbanks, Arthur, 1864-1944.

Callistratus, active 3rd century-4th century.

Series:

Loeb classical library ; 256.

Loeb classical library.

The Loeb classical library ; 256. Greek authors

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Painting--Early works to 1800.

Painting.

Painting, Greco-Roman.

Philostratus, the Athenian, active 2nd century-3rd century. Imagines.

Philostratus, the Lemnian, active 3rd century. Imagines.

Philostratus, the Lemnian, active 3rd century.

Callistratus, 3rd or 4th century. Descriptiones.

Sophists (Greek philosophy).

Genre:

Early works to 1800.

Early works.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 429 pages, 15 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press ; London : W. Heinemann, 1931.

Language Note:

Parallel Greek and English text.

Summary:

This volume presents kindred works important for evidence relating to late Greek art. They are attributed to two men each known as Philostratus and to a third man called Callistratus, otherwise unknown. To an elder Philostratus, the Lemnian, born ca. AD 190, junior kinsman of the Philostratus who wrote the Life of Apollonius of Tyana and Lives of the Sophists, is attributed the series of 65 'Eikones' or 'Imagines', descriptions (in two books) ostensibly of paintings in a gallery at Naples. A younger Philostratus, apparently his grandson, is credited with 17 similar descriptions. The 14 'Ekphraseis' attributed to Callistratus are descriptions of statues in stone and bronze, written probably in the fourth century AD. It is not known to what extent the descriptions are of real works of art, but they show how artists treated their subjects, and are written with some artistic knowledge. Yet rhetorical skill dominates: these pieces were written to display the writers' powers of descriptions. -- jacket.

Contents:

Philostratus the Elder, Imagines, books I-II.

Philostratus, the Younger, Imagines.

Callistratus, Descriptions.

Notes:

Greek and English on opposite pages.

The later series of Imagines is called "Posteriores" to distinguish it from the first. In the preface of the present edition, the earlier "Imagines" are ascribed to Philostratis, the Lemnian, son of Nervianus.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Related Work:

Callistratus, active 3rd century-4th century. Descriptions.

ISBN:

0674992822

9780674992825

OCLC:

10562335