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- Title
ODYSSEUS IN VISUAL PROGRAMS.
- Authors
van der Meer, L. Bouke
- Abstract
Images of Odysseus in ancient visual arts have been published by Odette Touchefeu-Meynier in her monograph Thèmes odysséens (1968) and in LIMC (1992). However, she did not pay attention to the meaning of Odysseus’s actions in visual programs (Bildprogramme). Therefore, this paper tries to explain the meaning of syntagmatic and paradigmatic programs. A syntagmatic relation between scenes on one or two sides of a vase, or another artefact or monument, is represented by successive scenes from a same story (Stansbury-O’Donnell 1999: 118, 136-137; Miścicki 2015: 75-81), in our case by different actions of Odysseus or different Odyssean stories. It will be shown that some of these syntagmata have a paradigmatic meaning. A paradigmatic relation depicts an action of Odysseus with the extension of a non-Odyssean, thematically related, mythical or real life picture. An observer may note similarities between the images by repeated compositions and motifs (Stansbury-O’Donnell 1999: 118, 122-136; Steiner 2007: 129-170; Meyer 2009: 26-28). Visual paradigms containing a comparison or common ground idea in the eyes of the artist and viewer occur during more than thousand years as will be shown in the following case studies. They illustrate how Odysseus’s actions were variously interpreted in the course of time.
- Subjects
VASES; ANCIENT art; ART
- Publication
Ocnus. Quaderni della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, 2021, Issue 29, p59
- ISSN
1122-6315
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.12876/OCNUS2904