The Weeping Rock Revisiting Niobe through 'Paragone', 'Pathosformel' and Petrification by Barbara Baert
The Weeping Rock Revisiting Niobe through 'Paragone', 'Pathosformel' and Petrification
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Barbara Baert
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The Weeping Rock Revisiting Niobe through 'Paragone', 'Pathosformel' and Petrification

Barbara Baert

125 pages • first pub 2020 (editions)

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Publius Ovid (43 BC-17/18 AD) describes in his Metamorphoses Niobe's transformation into a weeping rock. Niobe's transformation incorporates the form and matter of the medium of sculpture. According to the humanist paragone debate, painting and sc...

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