Word: pictura
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Giorgione appeals more to modern taste because his imagery was more mysterious and poetic, and the idea that painting should mimic the effects of lyric or pastoral poetry, ut pictura poesis, was a favorite 16th century dictum. There is a word for it, Giorgionesque, an allusive quality that comes through even in conventional subjects, such as the exquisite portrait of a young knight surrounded by the gleaming black weapons of his vocation, a dense still life with religious overtones (the handle and pommel of the sword are also a cross), the bony silence of the knight's face contrasting with...
...noon today in Robinson Hall to his students and vagabonds in Fine Arts 7a. Alberti was one of the foremost organists of his day: he wrote Latin verses with ease and skill: his Della Statua is one of the earliest critical works on sculpture, as is his De Pictura on the art of painting. It is his fame as an architect, however, that has best survived, and it is of this phase of his many sided activity that Professor Edgell will speak...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Ut Pictura Poesis." Mr. W. G. Howard. Common Room, Conant Hall...
...MODERN LANGUAGE CONFERENCE. "Ut Pictura Poesis." Mr. W. G. Howard. Common Room, Conant Hall...
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