Ekphrasis
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Ekphrasis is a rhetorical device defined as the written description of a work of art, either real or imagined. Since classical antiquity, ekphrasis has been used as a technique in poetry, but is frequ
This is a design of the Shield of Achilles based on the description in the Iliad. It was completed by Angelo Monticelli c. 1820. This shield represents the art of ekphrastic poetry Homer used in his writings.
Musée des Beaux Arts (poem)
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"Musée des Beaux Arts" is a 21-line poem written by W. H. Auden in December 1938 while he was staying in Brussels, Belgium, with Christopher Isherwood. It was first published under the title "Palais d
Ekphrasis
…retelling of the episode in Homer (see above), where Thetis finds very different scenes from those she expects. In contrast, Auden's earlier poem "Musée des Beaux Arts" describes a particular real and famous painting, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, thought until recently to be by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, and now…
Landscape with the Fall of Icarus in what is now the Oldmasters Museum, Brussels. It is now usually regarded as an early copy of a painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder
Bruegel,The Census at Bethlehem, 1566, in the same museum
Bruegel, The Massacre of the Innocents, 1565–7