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Describing visual art in words
in their work, and sometimes employ ekphrasis as a methodology. Later on—and into the present day—literary ekphrasis became a creative tool, where writers
Ekphrasis
Figure of speech
Peletier du Mans' work, l'Art poétique, whereas ekphrasis has been known since Greek antiquity. The ekphrasis is evoked by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, in
Hypotyposis
Order of arachnids
doi:10.1017/S006867350000523X. Leach, Eleanor Winsor (January 1974). "Ekphrasis and the Theme of Artistic Failure in Ovid's Metamorphoses". Ramus. 3 (2):
Spider
Film by Denis Villeneuve
and Denis Villeneuve's Film" (PDF). Ekphrasis: Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 28 (2): 49–67. doi:10.24193/ekphrasis.28.2. Archived (PDF) from the original
Dune_(2021_film)
pilgrim to the Holy Land. He wrote an account of his travels, the so-called Ekphrasis or Concise Description of the Holy Places, which has been called "the
John_Phokas
1952 poem by W. H. Auden
published in 1955. It is Auden's response to the detailed description, or ekphrasis, of the shield borne by the hero Achilles in Homer's epic poem the Iliad
The_Shield_of_Achilles
Christian virgin and martyr saint
Castelli, Elizabeth A. (July 15, 2000). "Chapter 39: Asterius of Amasea, Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphemia". In Valantasis, Richard (ed.). Religions
Euphemia
Ancient Greek goddess
Presses, ISBN 978-0-8387-5035-3 Leach, Eleanor Winsor (January 1974), "Ekphrasis and the Theme of Artistic Failure in Ovid's Metamorphoses", Ramus, 3 (2)
Athena
19th-century intellectual movement
Homer's Iliad; for example, the ekphrasis of Achilles' divine shield from his mother, Thetis, was mirrored by the ekphrasis of Aeneas' divine shield from
Philhellenism
Roman legendary shield
within the epic's narrative represents one of the most famous instances of ekphrasis in extant Roman literature. In Book VIII of the Aeneid, Virgil describes
Shield_of_Aeneas
Archaic conception of Earth's shape
Hugh G. Evelyn-White, 1914. The Shield of Achilles and the Poetics of Ekphrasis, Andrew Sprague Becker, Rowman & Littlefield, 1995, p. 148. Professor
Flat_Earth
Greek mythological figure
Publicaties. 30 (1/2): 4–18. JSTOR 3780948. "Ten of the best: examples of ekphrasis". the Guardian. 14 November 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2022. "Up like
Icarus
English Romantic poet (1795–1821)
(Out of Print in 2010) Scott, Grant F. (1994). The Sculpted Word: Keats, Ekphrasis, and the Visual Arts. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England. ISBN 0-87451-679-X
John_Keats
Shield described in Homer's Iliad
imagery. Homer's description of the shield is the first known example of ekphrasis in ancient Greek poetry; this is a rhetorical device in which a detailed
Shield_of_Achilles
Ancient Greek goddess of love
of Kos's lost masterpiece Aphrodite Anadyomene based on the literary ekphrasis of it preserved by Cicero and Pliny the Elder. Artists drew inspiration
Aphrodite
Roman emperor from 527 to 565
December 2025). "Hymn to Justinian? The Aspect of Hymn Poetry in the Ekphrasis of Hagia Sophia by Paul the Silentiary". Sapiens ubique civis. 6: 203–221
Justinian_I
Pictured ekphrasis is one aspect of the fusion of text and picture that emerge in the hybrid novel. Here, pictured ekphrasis refers to ekphrasis that is
Hybrid_novel
1818 sonnet by Percy Shelley
5699/modelangrevi.108.4.1221. Regis, Amber K. (2 April 2020). "Interpreting Emily: Ekphrasis and Allusion in Charlotte Brontë's 'Editor's Preface' to Wuthering Heights"
Ozymandias
Canadian YouTuber
Metareference in Video Essays" (PDF). Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 26 (2): 111–127. doi:10.24193/ekphrasis.26.8. ISSN 2559-205X. S2CID 245367312
Gregory_Guevara
Painting by Annibale Carracci
Sleeping Venus for Odoardo Farnese. Giovanni Battista Agucchi wrote an ekphrasis of this painting that Carlo Cesare Malvasia included in his book Life
Sleeping_Venus_(Carracci)
Mosque and former church in Istanbul, Turkey
form, was completed in 562. The poet Paul the Silentiary composed an ekphrasis, or long visual poem, for the re-dedication of the basilica presided over
Hagia_Sophia
Exercises in rhetoric
perform it with clarity, conciseness, and floridity. When asked to use ekphrasis to describe a person, place, thing, or time, students were obliged to
Progymnasmata
A. (2000). Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr Euphemia. In Asterius of Amasea: Ekphrasis on the Holy (pp. 464–468). Castelli, E. A. Ekphrasis on the Holy Martyr
List of Christian women of the early church
List_of_Christian_women_of_the_early_church
Church and imperial mausoleum in Constantinople
Constantine of Rhodes, preserved in a fifteenth-century manuscript, contains an ekphrasis and description of the church. The domes appear to have been drastically
Church_of_the_Holy_Apostles
Swiss-French architect (1887–1965)
location (link) Korolija Fontana-Giusti, Gordana. (2015) 'Transgression and Ekphrasis in Le Corbusier's Journey to the East' in Transgression: Towards the Expanded
Le_Corbusier
Christian theologian and saint (c. 170 – c. 235)
teachers discussing classical works. He employs a common rhetorical trope, ekphrasis, using images on the walls or floors of Greco-Roman homes, and in the
Hippolytus_of_Rome
1480 pastoral poem by Jacopo Sannazaro
Arcadia Venetia 1524 from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek Arcadia web(PDF; 350 kB). Laterza, Bari 196 Ekphrasis and the Feminine in Sannazaro's Arcadia
Arcadia_(poem)
Adage
become of higher resolution with larger file size. The Commissar Vanishes Ekphrasis Picture superiority effect cf Just a Minute "Speakers Give Sound Advice"
A picture is worth a thousand words
A_picture_is_worth_a_thousand_words
Painting by Sandro Botticelli
painting, which are recorded in classical literature, especially the ekphrasis, a popular literary genre consisting of the description of a painting
Calumny_of_Apelles
American poet
Council for the Humanities. In 2014, he was selected for the Ekphrasis Prize by Ekphrasis magazine. In 2015, he won the James Vaughan Poetry Award by Hawaiʻi
Joseph_Stanton
1435 treatise by Leon Battista Alberti
Number 1, Summer 2005, pages 1–13 Alpers, Svetlana Leontief (July 1960). "Ekphrasis and Aesthetic Attitudes in Vasari's Lives". Journal of the Warburg and
De_pictura
Painting by Jean Metzinger
Jurkevic, 2000, In pursuit of the natural sign- Azorín and the poetics of Ekphrasis, pp. 200-213 Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Histoire & Mesure, no. XXII -1 (2007)
Woman_with_a_Horse
Greek mythological figure
Sculptors: Their Careers and Extant Works. Begins with Daedalus. Peter Hunt, "Ekphrasis or Not? Ovid (Met. 8.183-235 ) in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape
Daedalus
Ancient Greek descriptions of paintings
Mario (2011). Bilder schreiben. Virtuose Ekphrasis in Philostrats ‘Eikones‘ [Writing images. Masterful ekphrasis in Philostratus' 'Imagines']. Millennium-Studien
Imagines (work by Philostratus)
Imagines_(work_by_Philostratus)
Northern Irish film director
Psychogeographical Essay Film" (PDF). Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media. 26 (2): 27–42. doi:10.24193/ekphrasis.26.3. Lodge, Guy (3 July 2012). "What
Mark_Cousins_(filmmaker)
American science fiction writer (born 1985)
Genevievis)'" (2016) "All the Colors You Thought Were Kings" (2016) "Ekphrasis" (2016) "Ruin Marble" (2017) "The Hydraulic Emperor" (2018) "Object-Oriented"
Arkady_Martine
Skaldic poem
Ragnar. The poem is often compared with other early Skaldic examples of ekphrasis, especially Haustlöng and Húsdrápa, which also describe artworks depicting
Ragnarsdrápa
Type of lyric poem
more sensitive exploration of warfare. Ode on a Grecian Urn, while an ekphrasis, also functions as an ode to the artistic beauty the narrator observes
Ode
1939 song recorded by Billie Holiday
Retrieved October 29, 2024. Perry, Samuel (2012). ""Strange Fruit," Ekphrasis, and the Lynching Scene". Rhetoric Society Quarterly. 43 (5): 449–474
Strange_Fruit
Poem by W. H. Auden
along." The second half of the poem refers, through the poetic device of ekphrasis, to the painting Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (c. 1560s), at the
Musée_des_Beaux_Arts_(poem)
12th-century guidebook for pilgrims
Traveller (1106–1108) Descriptio de locis sanctis of Rorgo Fretellus (1137) Ekphrasis of John Phokas (c. 1147) Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan (c. 1157) Descriptio
Leiðarvísir_og_borgarskipan
Swiss-German painter (1879–1940)
31 Reproduced alongside Gerg Traki's poem in Zeit-Echo 1915.A reverse ekphrasis. Beate Ofczarek, Stefan Frey: Chronologie einer Freundschaft, pp. 214 et
Paul_Klee
2003 novel by Edward P. Jones
Essay". African American Review. 42 (3/4): 735–738. Seger, Maria (2014). "Ekphrasis and the Postmodern Slave Narrative: Reading the Maps of Edward P. Jones's
The_Known_World
Christian grammarian and poet
7th century. Seven poems by John have survived: an ekphrasis and six Anacreontic verses. The ekphrasis, Tabula Mundi (Table of the World), contains 703
John_of_Gaza
American painter and printmaker (1882–1967)
typically as vivid descriptions and dramatizations; this genre is known as ekphrasis. In addition to numerous individual poems inspired by Hopper, several
Edward_Hopper
Norwegian philosopher (1899–1990)
can be seen reflected in his work Rough Joys (1969), where he creates ekphrasis from his photographic documentation during his trips to the mountains
Peter_Wessel_Zapffe
Celtic god of eloquence
passage relevant to Ogmios comes at the beginning, where Lucian delivers an ekphrasis (literary description of a work of art) of an image of Heracles: The Celts
Ogmios
1878 novel by Leo Tolstoy
(Ohio State University Press, 1993) Mandelker, Amy. "A Painted Lady: Ekphrasis in Anna Karenina." Comparative Literature 43.1 (1991): 1–19. online Morson
Anna_Karenina
History, Translation, Nostalgia, and Writing for Art: The Aesthetics of Ekphrasis. Herring, Richard (2007-01-25). "Warming Up". Retrieved 2009-06-28. "Dr
Stephen_Cheeke
Aztec mother goddess
virreinal. El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City, 2020. Pimentel, Luz A. "Ekphrasis and Cultural Discourse: Coatlicue in Descriptive and Analytic Texts (Representations
Cōātlīcue
German priest, Dominican friar, pilgrim and author
Traveller (1106–1108) Descriptio de locis sanctis of Rorgo Fretellus (1137) Ekphrasis of John Phokas (c. 1147) Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan (c. 1157) Descriptio
Burchard_of_Mount_Sion
2nd-century Syrian satirist and rhetorician
Calumny of Apelles by Sandro Botticelli, based on a description of a painting by the Greek painter Apelles of Kos found in Lucian's ekphrasis On Calumny
Lucian
Historian of Byzantine history
"Theodore Hyrtakenos' Description of the Garden of St. Anna and the Ekphrasis of Gardens", Byzantine garden culture, Editors Antony Robert Littlewood
Maria_Mavroudi
practice of painting were components in a gentlemanly education. The ekphrasis was a literary form consisting of a description of a work of art, and
Ancient_Greek_art
1819 poem by John Keats
the poem is ekphrasis, the poetic representation of a painting or sculpture in words. Keats broke from the traditional use of ekphrasis found in Theocritus's
Ode_on_a_Grecian_Urn
Roman epic poet and dramatist
de la poésie à Rome, Tournai: Decallonne-Liagre. Faber, R. (2012). The Ekphrasis in Naevius' "Bellum Punicum" and Hellenistic Literary Aesthetics. Hermes
Gnaeus_Naevius
Poem by William Carlos Williams
Editions / Dijon: Maurice Darantière, 1923). Hefferman, James A. W. (1991). "Ekphrasis and Representation". New Literary History. 22 (2): 297–316. doi:10.2307/469040
The_Red_Wheelbarrow
Taiwanese novelist
and Japanese literary modernisms. Her novels contain camera angles and ekphrasis in response to European art cinema, including allusions to directors such
Qiu_Miaojin
List of scenes in Homer which have specific names
scene in Homer's work. These may overlap with the terms above (e.g., ekphrasis and Hoplopoiia). Hysminai (Battles) Machai (Wars) Phonoi (Murders) Androktasiai
List of Homeric scenes with proper names
List_of_Homeric_scenes_with_proper_names
Type of building in classical and church architecture
translators and servants; around 350 bishops attended the Council in all. In an ekphrasis in his eleventh sermon, Asterius of Amasea described an icon in the church
Basilica
American author, entrepreneur, and community activist
American poet, translator, and essayist, who is noted for her work in ekphrasis—writing in dialogue with art. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, she
Sharon_Dolin
Roman goddess of war
1st-century BCE poet Virgil, in his Aeneid, mentions Bellona as part of an ekphrasis describing the shield of Aeneas: She is—within this passage—mentioned
Bellona_(goddess)
Australian poet and critic
ACT Judith Wright Award, 2010, commended for Vanishing Point Nillumbik Ekphrasis Poetry Award, 2014, for Lost Sea Voices Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2014,
Felicity_Plunkett
Painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Paintings. Midpoint Press. p. 60. ISBN 3-8228-1531-4. Hunt, Patrick. "Ekphrasis or Not? Ovid (Met. 8.183-235 ) in Pieter Bruegel the Elder's Landscape
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
Landscape_with_the_Fall_of_Icarus
Aetion, is a corruption of Echion. Sandro Botticelli drew on Lucian's ekphrasis in his Mars and Venus (c. 1485, now National Gallery), borrowing the amoretti
Echion_(painter)
Poem by Rainer Maria Rilke
Apollo" is a sonnet with the rhyme scheme AbbA CddC EEf GfG. It is an ekphrasis—a rhetorical genre from ancient Greece that describes inanimate objects—of
Archaic_Torso_of_Apollo
Phenomenon in which concepts evoke sensory experiences
Mărginaş, Raluca. "The Spurious Case of Synesthesia in the Popular Arts." Ekphrasis 1 (2012): 144-151. Johnson, A. (2017). Hendrick ter Brugghen's Musicians
Ideasthesia
Dutch bishop (died 1233)
Traveller (1106–1108) Descriptio de locis sanctis of Rorgo Fretellus (1137) Ekphrasis of John Phokas (c. 1147) Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan (c. 1157) Descriptio
Wilbrand_of_Oldenburg
Byzantine churchman and writer
Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-921067-1. Nicholas Mesarites, Ekphrasis on the Church of the Holy Apostles Archived 2015-12-12 at the Wayback
Nicholas_Mesarites
2008 American film
Desecration of Bodies. Re-animating Undead Mythologies in Cinema" (PDF), Ekphrasis. Images, Cinema, Theory, Media, 12 (2), Babeș-Bolyai University: 125–126
Zombie_Strippers
1974 film
winner of the 2022 National Poetry Series by poet Alisha Dietzman, is an ekphrasis of the film. The book mirrors "the uncertain, unstable tenor of Dušan
Sweet_Movie
Horse breed originating in West Asia
Horses of the Sahara.". Description in Classical Arabic Poetry: Waṣf, Ekphrasis, and Interarts. Brill. ISBN 978-90-04-12922-1. Train, Amy (December 2006)
Arabian_horse
Irish poet (1941–2020)
to lift the weight from my heart. He has also explored the genre of ekphrasis: the poetic reinterpretation of visual art. In that respect, he was interested
Derek_Mahon
6th-century mosaic map of the Holy Land
Traveller (1106–1108) Descriptio de locis sanctis of Rorgo Fretellus (1137) Ekphrasis of John Phokas (c. 1147) Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan (c. 1157) Descriptio
Madaba_Map
2003 drama film by Peter Webber
heart. Laura M. Sager Eidt, in her book Writing and Filming the Painting: Ekphrasis in Literature and Film, asserts that the film deviates significantly from
Girl with a Pearl Earring (film)
Girl_with_a_Pearl_Earring_(film)
Roman imperial dynasty in late antiquity, r. 364–392 and 421–455
Sophie (9 December 2010). "Commemorating the Usurper Magnus Maximus: Ekphrasis, Poetry, and History in Pacatus' Panegyric of Theodosius". Journal of
Valentinian_dynasty
American novelist, essayist, poet (born 1955)
Works of Siri Hustvedt (New York: Peter Lang, 2014). Asbjorn Gronstad. "Ekphrasis Refigured: Writing Seeing in Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved," Mosaic, vol
Siri_Hustvedt
Greek poet
and 580. Agathias considered Paul's greatest work to be his long verse ekphrasis of Justinian's Cathedral of the Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia), composed after
Paul_the_Silentiary
Reasonable Drought (with Stove God Cooks) 2021: Delgado (with Flee Lord) 2021: Ekphrasis (with Bronze Nazareth) 2021: If These Kitchen Walls Could Talk (with Stove
Roc_Marciano_discography
L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z See also References echo verse eclogue ekphrasis A vivid, graphic, or dramatic written commentary or description of another
Glossary_of_literary_terms
4th century Roman writer
Traveller (1106–1108) Descriptio de locis sanctis of Rorgo Fretellus (1137) Ekphrasis of John Phokas (c. 1147) Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan (c. 1157) Descriptio
Egeria_(pilgrim)
Bronze Roman statuette
Lord Leighton in Holland Park, London. The Dionysus inspired works of ekphrasis by both the Russian poet Vyacheslav Ivanov (1904) and the American playwright
Dionysus,_called_Narcissus
American poet (born 1946)
including The American Poetry Review, Beloit Poetry Review, Cimarron Review, Ekphrasis, Luna, North American Review, Prairie Schooner, Red Hawk Review, Spoon
Linnea_Johnson
Italian poet and writer (born 1979)
by Robert Davi Andres Serrano Kevin Spacey Abel Ferrara Found poetry Ekphrasis Lyric Poetry System. "Franco Nero legge 'Il Pugile' di Gabriele Tinti"
Gabriele_Tinti_(poet)
British art historian (born 1962)
literary description of art (including the rhetorical technique known as ekphrasis) to the more recent collecting and display of art as well as its modern
Jaś_Elsner
Literary device
significant portion of Walter Moers' The Labyrinth of Dreaming Books is an ekphrasis on the subject of an epic puppet theater presentation. Another example
Story_within_a_story
Painting by Hans Heysen
of other Australian artists and writers, including Kim Scott and his ekphrasis of the painting in his short story Into the Light. The symbolic use of
Droving_Into_the_Light
Painting by Sandro Botticelli
with Venus and Mars to the historical Alexander and his bride. Lucian's ekphrasis or description mentions amoretti or putti playing with Alexander's armour
Venus_and_Mars_(Botticelli)
Byzantine cleric and writer (died after 1454)
rhetorical ekphraseis and monodies, prayers, hymns and sermons, including an ekphrasis of Trebizond and a lament on the Fall of Constantinople. Thirty-six of
John_Eugenikos
Australian contemporary art photographer (born 1955)
Treatment of Emotion in Front of a Stage. Bill Henson: The Opera Project. EKPHRASIS: IMAGES, CINEMA, THEATRE, MEDIA, 1/2009 Integrating Methodologies in Visual
Bill_Henson
Figure from Greek mythology
non-normative relation, the work includes a long passage, possibly an ekphrasis derived from Italian art, in which Jupiter in the form of an eagle abducts
Ganymede_(mythology)
14th-century Arab Andalusian poet and statesman
Studies. 1968. p. 191. Description in Classical Arabic Poetry:Was.f, Ekphrasis, and interarts, by Akiko Motoyoshi Sumi, Brill, 2003, p. 158 "Biography
Ibn_Zamrak
Roman nobleman and man of letters
of Nola in the Gothic style. It was later rebuilt, but a description (ekphrasis) of the Gothic work is found in Ambrogio Leone's De Nola from 1514. The
Nicola_Orsini,_Count_of_Nola
American classicist (1933–2025)
Virgil's Aeneid: Interpretation and Influence (1995) Virgil's Epic Designs: Ekphrasis in the Aeneid (1998) Horace's Carmen Saeculare: Ritual Magic and the Poet's
Michael_C._J._Putnam
Ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides
offer sacrifice. The messenger describes the banquet tent, in a detailed ekphrasis. The messenger then reports how the plan went awry. Ingratiating himself
Ion_(play)
English writer and classicist
awarded a PhD from University College London with a thesis exploring ekphrasis in Greek and Latin poetry and sixteenth-century Italian painting. She
Daisy_Dunn
Italian sculptor (c. 1490–1530)
Women (1828) where she focused on the artist's unrequited love through an ekphrasis based on Louis Ducas' painting of 1822. De' Rossi functioned for Hemans
Properzia_de'_Rossi
American rapper (born 1982)
"716 Mile" Westside Gunn "Nosebleeds" Bronze Nazareth & Roc Marciano Ekphrasis "No Yeast" 2022 Curren$y & The Alchemist Continuance "Yzerman" Nicholas
Boldy_James
German musician and musicologist (born 1951)
ISBN 978-1-57647-013-8 - Musical Ekphrasis: Composers Responding to Poetry and Painting, Pendragon, 2000. ISBN 978-1-57647-036-7 Musical Ekphrasis in Rilke's Marienleben
Siglind_Bruhn
Late 7th c. Frankish bishop, traveler in the Levant
Traveller (1106–1108) Descriptio de locis sanctis of Rorgo Fretellus (1137) Ekphrasis of John Phokas (c. 1147) Leiðarvísir og borgarskipan (c. 1157) Descriptio
Arculf
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