Fiche du document
2002
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2024. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Mots-clés
Pausanias. ; Ancient Greece ; description (ekphrasis) ; 18-19th century France ; travel literatureSujets proches
Western art (Western countries) Fine arts Iconography Arts, Fine Art, Occidental Arts, Visual Visual arts Occidental art Art, Visual Art, Western (Western countries) ArtsCiter ce document
Céline Guilmet, « Pausanias, voyageur et critique d’art », Histoire de l'art (documents), ID : 10.3406/hista.2002.2989
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Pausanias as a traveller and critic. The visual writing of Pausanias can legitimately retain our attention. The descriptive rhetoric of the traveller is based on “ autopsia ”, a direct vision of works of art. Pausanias travels to see the artefact in its environment but also to store all the traces of greekness. The systematic curiosity of the traveller, interested in sacred matters and special features of the Greek landscape, completed with strong preferences, artistically speaking. Pausanias is fond of understatement, but his remarks are the proof of an experienced approach that can recognize styles and point to what should be seen. These different attitudes weave into writings necessary for understanding the cultural uses of the second century, that can be read as an Encyclopaedia or looked upon as a book of pictures. This extremely rich visual writing influenced travellers, scholars and artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
