L’épigramme de la « chambre » jaune : Micon et Péro dans la maison de Marcus Lucretius Fronto
The room (6 )= (i) of Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s house (Pompeii) delivered a pinax showing Micon imprisoned, condemned to starve, and saved by the devotion of his daughter Pero. The peculiarity of the painting discovered in Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s house is to be accompanied with a Latin epigram pai...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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Presses universitaires du Midi
2013-11-01
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| Series: | Pallas |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/pallas/1457 |
| Summary: | The room (6 )= (i) of Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s house (Pompeii) delivered a pinax showing Micon imprisoned, condemned to starve, and saved by the devotion of his daughter Pero. The peculiarity of the painting discovered in Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s house is to be accompanied with a Latin epigram painted within the figurative field. The present article tries to review the various interpretations which were given on this text and on the décoration in which it appears since their publication in the Notizie Scavi in 1900. The epigram aims at influencing the reception of the images and at directing the reading which will give a possible spectator: its presence was most probably decided by the sponsor (that is, by Marcus Lucretius Fronto himself) to arouse a moral reading of the image: The Charity of Pero illustrates the ideal of pietas and pudor that this candidate for the local elections intended to present as his. We shall underline besides that this picture maintains complex relations with the other pinakes, anepigraphic, which decorate the same space: the meaning of the group maybe took all its sense in the light of Marcus Lucretius Fronto’s personal story, the picture with Narcissus maybe sending back to the early death of one of the two children of the host. |
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| ISSN: | 0031-0387 2272-7639 |