Rhetorical Renaissance by Kathy Eden;

Author:Kathy Eden; [Eden, Kathy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LIT000000 LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LIT019000 LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, LIT004180 LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, LAN015000 LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Rhetoric
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-01-04T00:00:00+00:00

who does not recognize that Canachus’ statues are too inflexible to represent real bodies? Those of Calamis are stiff, to be sure, but still more supple than Canachus’s; Myron’s are not yet realistic, yet they’re the sort you’d readily call beautiful; those of Polyclitus are more beautiful, in fact quite perfect, at least to my eye. A similar pattern [ratio] obtains in painting: we praise Zeuxis and Polygnotus and Timanthes, and the shapes and lines [formas et liniamenta] of those who used no more than four colors; but in the work of Aetion, Nicomachus, Protogenes, Apelles, all the elements have already been perfected. And the same would probably turn out to be true in all other areas, for nothing has been both discovered and perfected all at once [nihil est enim simul et inventum et perfectum]. (Brutus 70–71)

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