The Images of Philostratus
Les images ou tableaus de platte peinture de Philostrate Lemnien
French
Philostratus the Elder c. 220 CE · published 1602
1434 pages
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First from French
English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.
While the original Greek 'Imagines' by Philostratus has been translated into English (most notably by Arthur Fairbanks in 1931), the specific 1602 French work by Blaise de Vigenère, which includes his massive and influential 'Annotations,' has never been translated into English. Vigenère's edition is a distinct scholarly and literary work of the French Renaissance, and no English version of his specific French text or commentary exists.
Related translations found:
Imagines (Loeb Classical Library), trans. Arthur Fairbanks (1931) [complete]
The Description of a Series of Paintings (in 'The Rhetoric, Poetic, and Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle'), trans. Thomas Taylor (1818) [partial]
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Philostratus treats the canvas as a mirror for the soul and the secrets of the natural world. Readers will discover how ancient art, mythology, and philosophy collide to explain the very mechanics of creation.
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