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VITRUVIUS ON VERMILION: FABERIUS’S DOMESTIC DECOR AND THE INVECTIVE TRADITION

NICHOLS, MARDEN FITZPATRICK

Arethusa, 2016-04, Vol.49 (2), p.317-333 [Periódico revisado por pares]

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VITRUVIUS ON VERMILION: FABERIUS’S DOMESTIC DECOR AND THE INVECTIVE TRADITION
Autor: NICHOLS, MARDEN FITZPATRICK
Assuntos: Architecture ; Architecture, Domestic ; Cinnabar ; Italy ; Politics ; Romance literature ; Rome ; Traditions ; Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio) ; Vitruvius Pollio ; Writers
É parte de: Arethusa, 2016-04, Vol.49 (2), p.317-333
Descrição: Everything people know, or at least think they know, about Vitruvius derives from de Architectura. The outlines of an authorial figure emerge from passing references to relationships, events, and circumstances. Vitruvius' persona truly takes shape, however, through the character foils depicted in brief narratives throughout the text: in Book 10, Callias temporarily unseats the architectus Diognetus from his rightful position at Rhodes by showcasing a design for a (functionally unsound) war machine on a grand scale (10.16.3-8); in Book 7, the painter Apaturius of Alabanda beguiles the populace of Tralles with flashy, yet flawed, paintings before a mathematician intervenes (7.5.5-7); and in the preface to Book 2, the architectus Dinocrates approaches Alexander the Great with the spectacular idea of transforming Mt. Athos into the statue of a man; the ruler rejects it as impractical (2 pref. 1-4). Here, Nichols proposes Roman political invective as the model for Vitruvius' narration of Faberius' faux pas.
Editor: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
Idioma: Inglês

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