A Companion to Ancient Aesthetics by Destrée Pierre; Murray Penelope; & Penelope Murray

Author:Destrée, Pierre; Murray, Penelope; & Penelope Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2015-07-20T00:00:00+00:00

Yet the most brilliant literary report on the purple effect, which deserves to be quoted at some length, is likely found in Philostratus the Elder, describing a painting scene with hunters, whose leader catches the eye by his rushing in golden-and-purple guise (Imagines I 28.4 tr. A. Fairbanks, modified in a few points):

… and [his horse, white and black-headed] has golden trappings, and a bridle of Median scarlet; for this colour flashes on the gold as fired stones would. The youth’s garment is a chlamys bellying out in the wind; the colour is the sea-purple which the Phoenicians love, and it should be prized above other purple-dyes; for though it seems to be dark it gains a peculiar beauty from the sun and is infused with the brilliancy of the sun’s warmth. And from shame of exposing himself unclad to those about him he wears a sleeved chiton of purple […] He smiles, and his eye flashes, and he wears his hair long, but not long enough to shade his eyes when the wind shall throw it into disorder.

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