For the love of art. Notes on agalmatophilia and Imitatio Creatoris, from Plato to Winckelmann
With the story of Pygmalion, the classical embodiment of the «living image», the mythographers were allowed to compare the creative role of such a legendary character, capable of devising animated and rational beings, with the power of the gods. Besides this one, other accounts from Antiquity have c...
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2006-01-01
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Series: | Anales de Historia del Arte |
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Online Access: | http://revistasculturales.ucm.es/index.php/ANHA/article/view/32238 |