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2011-06-23Zeitschriftenartikel DOI: 10.18452/7636
Socrates Becomes Narcissus: Moral Mediation and Artistic Representation in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicarum quaestionum
dc.contributor.authorPackwood, David
dc.contributor.editorDressen, Angela
dc.contributor.editorGramatzki, Susanne
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-16T16:13:09Z
dc.date.available2017-06-16T16:13:09Z
dc.date.created2011-06-02
dc.date.issued2011-06-23
dc.identifier.urihttp://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/8288
dc.description.abstractAchille Bocchi’s Symbolicarum quaestionum of 1555 shows Socrates drawing a preparatory design, in the presence of his demon. Socrates as artist was used to illustrate Bocchi’s adage, “The significance of weighty things is shown by a picture/ Whatever is hidden deeper becomes more apparent.” A companion print of Socrates holding a mirror illustrates another maxim “Behold - a live face is splendidly transmitted from a mirror. You know this and are able to do everything you yourself want.” This article explores how Socrates’s iconography is intertwined with theories of artistic representation and moral mediation in the Symbolicarum quaestionum. It also argues that Bocchi’s juxtaposition of Socrates looking into a mirror and performing an artistic function, suggests that the Bolognese intellectual knew of a philosophical tradition that combined Socrates and Narcissus: the former linked with inner truth via the mediation of the mirror; the latter with the origin of painting, also a form of self-knowledge. Finally, by drawing on recent scholarship on Socrates, which meshes reflections on philosophy, gender and age, Bocchi’s representation of Socrates is placed within a new context.eng
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectAchille Bocchiger
dc.subjectSocratesger
dc.subjectdemonger
dc.titleSocrates Becomes Narcissus: Moral Mediation and Artistic Representation in Achille Bocchi’s Symbolicarum quaestionum
dc.typearticle
dc.identifier.urnurn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100187473
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18452/7636
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local.edoc.container-type-nameZeitschrift
dc.identifier.zdb2063498-5
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitleRepresentations of Philosophers
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume2011
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.issue2
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart3

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