The opening scene in a famous narrative cycle painted in the Villa della Farnesina (early Augustan age) can be interpreted as the proem to a set of novella-like stories. This is suggested by a – mainly narratological – comparison with the prologues of Apuleius’s Metamorphoses and (as far as indirect sources allow) of Aristides’s Milesian Tales.
How to paint a fictional prologue: a test case from the Villa della Farnesina
Antonio Stramaglia
2020-01-01
Abstract
The opening scene in a famous narrative cycle painted in the Villa della Farnesina (early Augustan age) can be interpreted as the proem to a set of novella-like stories. This is suggested by a – mainly narratological – comparison with the prologues of Apuleius’s Metamorphoses and (as far as indirect sources allow) of Aristides’s Milesian Tales.File in questo prodotto:
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