This study examines the expressive qualities of secrecy in both painting and literature. Examples range from Chinese landscapes to Venetian masks, from Hans Holbein’s anamorphoses to Diego Velázquez’s nudes, whether veiled or not. This essay is accompanied by illustrated plates.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14515-8
EAN:9782406145158
ISSN: 2105-8814
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-500-9
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 12-29-2008
Language: French
Keyword: Fin’amor, emblem, self-portrait, ut pictura poesis, ancient myths, mirror, metamorphosis, mystery, sixteenth-, seventeenth-, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century visual arts, sixteenth-, seventeenth- and nineteenth-century literature
