Ut pictura poesis

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Ut pictura poesis is a Latin phrase and literally translated means "like painting so poetry".

“ Ut pictura poesis; erit quae, si propius stes / te capiat magis, et quaedam, si longius abstes .
The poem is like a picture: there are some who captivate you more when you stand closer and others who captivate you when you stand further away. "

- Horace. Epistola ad Pisones, verse 361

The sentence is a quote from the Epistola ad Pisones (Ars Poetica) (Latin = poetry) by the Roman poet Horace . The letter was written around 15 BC. And is addressed to members of the Roman Piso family . In the so-called teaching letter , Horace discusses the principles of painting and poetry. The letter is written in hexameters , the translations are usually prose versions.

Horace's text was of great influence on the poetics of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and was discussed by authors such as Alexander Pope , Denis Diderot and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing until the Age of Enlightenment . The statement ut pictura poesis was one of the arguments in the Paragone debate in the early modern period , in which the supremacy of the various arts was fought.

literature

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  • Horace : De arte poetica liber. The poetry . Latin and German. Introduction, transl. And Explanation by Horst Rüdiger . Zurich: Artemis-Verl. 1961.
  • Horace: Ars Poetica. The poetry . Latin. and German, trans. u. with an afterword by Eckart Schäfer . 2nd edition, Stuttgart 1984.
Bibliographies
  • John Graham: Ut pictura poesis. A Bibliography . In: Bulletin of Bibliography and Magazine. Notes 29, 1972. pp. 13-15 u. 18th
Secondary literature
  • Rensselaer W. Lee: Ut Pictura Poesis. The Humanistic Theory of Painting . In: The Art Bulletin. Vol. 1940, Issue 4
  • Étienne Souriau : La Correspondance des arts. Éléments d'esthétique comparée . Paris: Flammarion 1947. Réédition 1969.
  • Mario Praz : Mnemosyne: The Parallel Between Literature and the Visual Arts . London: Princeton Univ. Press, Oxford Univ. Press 1971. ISBN 978-0-19-690382-8
EH Gombrich : Review of Mario Praz, Mnemosyne: The Parallel between Literature and the Visual Arts . In: Burlington Magazine. Vol. 114, 1972. pp. 345-346
  • Hans Christoph Buch (Ed.): Ut pictura poesis. Descriptive literature and its critics from Lessing to Lukacs . (Dissertation). Munich: Hanser 1972.
  • John Graham: Ut pictura poesis . In: Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Edited by Philip Wiener. Volume 4. New York 1973. pp. 465-476.
  • Ulrich Weisstein (ed.): Literature and fine arts. A handbook on theory and practice of a comparative border area. Berlin: Schmidt 1992. ISBN 3-503-03012-3
  • Hubertus coal : Ut pictura poesis non erit. Denis Diderot's concept of art . With an excursus on JBS Chardin. Hildesheim: Olms 1989. (Studies on art history. 52). ISBN 3-487-09096-1
  • Gabriele K. Springath: Das Dictum des Simonides: The comparison of poetry and painting. Poetica. Vol. 36. No. 3/4. 2004. pp. 243-280.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Quintus Horatius Flaccus: Ars Poetica. Poetry, Latin, Stuttgart 1984. p. 27.
  2. ↑ Essay on Poetic Theory - Ars Poetica, Poetry foundation, accessed on October 18, 2018
  3. ^ Christine Tauber: Paragone. In: Stefan Jordan, Jürgen Müller (Ed.): Lexicon of Art History. A hundred basic terms. Stuttgart: Reclam 2012.