Propertius and the Visual Arts
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https://doi.org/10.17851/1983-3636.15.1.211-248Keywords:
Propertius, visual arts, elegy, Classical Antiquity, painting, sculptureAbstract
It is possible to notice a recurrent allusion to the universe of visual arts in Propertius’ elegies. These references have different ways of appearing through the elegiac poems: it can be through an accurate description of artistic monuments, as occurs in 2.31; it can be through the quotation of artists, as in 3.9; and, also, through the description of both characters, Cynthia and Propertius, that received a strong iconographic influence of paintings and sculptures in their construction, as we can observe in elegy 1.3. Considering these frequent allusions to visual arts, this article aims to comprehend the concept of both visual and poetic art that appears in Propertius’ works, through the selection and analysis of some of the elegies in which it was possible to observe a significant presence of these allusions. Therefore, in addition to the understanding of Propertius’ perception of visual arts, which give us a diverse and new perspective concerning the concept of art on Classical Antiquity, this article contributes to the study of Propertius own poetic program, since the concept of art expressed by him can also be observed in his own poems. Thus, it was possible to observe that visual arts play a metapoetic role in his poetry, revealing Propertius’ own poetic concerns.
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