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Abstract :
[en] The literary and rhetoric process of Ekphrasis was used on numerous occasions in Ancient literature, especially by the author Lucian of Samosata. Because these descriptions of Works of Art combine literature and Art history, they allow scientists to choose either a philological or an iconographical study approach. Philologists obviously have studied these Ekphraseis so as to define their styles, shapes, and influences from the author, whereas Art historians have considered them as one of the rare source of information about the Ancient painting but have not always replaced them in their context of writing or taken a critical look at them.
« The Centaur’s Family » picture, for example, which would have been painted by Zeuxis of Heraclea, will on the one hand allow us to highlight the problem of these two different analyses, and on the other hand to show how they can be combined to bring a new perspective, not only on this picture, but perhaps also on the other paintings described by Lucian of Samosata.
