Mute Poetry, Speaking Pictures
The skirmish between painting and poetry—from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and Shakespeare
Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets—and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? In ...
The skirmish between painting and poetry—from Plato and Praxiteles to Rembrandt and Shakespeare
Why do painters sometimes wish they were poets—and why do poets sometimes wish they were painters? What happens when Rembrandt spells out Hebrew in the sky or Poussin spells out Latin on a tombstone? What happens when Virgil, Ovid, or Shakespeare suspend their plots to describe a fictitious painting? In ...
