Too Beautiful to Picture : Zeuxis, Myth, and Mimesis /
Few tales of artistic triumph can rival the story of Zeuxis. As firstreported by Cicero and Pliny, the painter Zeuxis set out to portrayHelen of Troy, but when he realized that a single model could not matchHelens beauty, he combined the best features of five different models. A primer on mimesis in...
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
2007.
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