stefan arteni

an essay on visual semiotics

V

solinvictus press 2008

Judgement of Paris
Greek vase
Greek vase and detail
Etruscan mirror,
c.300 BC
Etruscan artwork,
4th–3rd century BC
The Three Graces and The Judgement of Paris (theme of a pantomime),
relief of the pulpitum, theatre of Sàbrata
Roman
mosaic
Workshop of the Embriachi (?-1433)
Anonymous
German master,
15th-16th century
Anonymous
Italian
master
Girolamo
di Benvenuto
di Giovanni
del Guasta
Andrea Meldolla (Schiavone)
French
stained glass
window,
16th century
Marcantonio Raimondi
Hans von Aachen
Workshop
of Domenico
Da Venezia
Joachim Wtewael
Joachim Wtewael
Cornelis van Haarlem
Juan de Juanes
Hendrick
van Balen
Hendrick
van Balen
Felice Rizzi (Felice Brusasorci or Busasorzi)
Peter
Paul
Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens
Francesco Albani
Antoine
Watteau
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Roger
de la Fresnaye
Aligi Sassu
Aligi Sassu
Centaur
Painter of Stathalou,
Greek vase and detail,
8th century BC
Greek black-figure amphora, 540–530 BC
Greek plate, 6th century BC
Roman sarcophagus with Dionysos and Ariadne
Vezelay, Burgundy
Centaurs harvesting grapes,
sculpted capital from the nave
of the abbey-church in Mozac
in the Auvergne, 12th century.
Elkstone, Gloucestershire
Iffley, Oxfordshire
Spain, Palencia, about 1100
Santiago de Compostela cathedral
Mosaic, San Cataldo cathedral
Anonymous Flemish
goldsmith,
panel with a Centaur
1160s
copper, gilded, champlevé
Sandro Botticelli
Perseus and Andromeda
I
Roman
wall painting
Roman
mosaic,
Spain
Roman
mosaic,
Zeugma
Byzantine mosaic, 6th-7th centuries
Giorgio
Vasari
Peter Paul
Rubens
Peter Paul Rubens
Perseus and Andromeda
II
Palma the Younger (Jacopo Negretti II)
Tiziano
Vecellio
Paolo Caliari
(Veronese)
Vergil Solis,
16th century
Joachim
Wtewael
Morazzone
(Pier Francesco
Mazzucchelli)
Giuseppe Cesari
(Cavaliere d'Arpino)
Saint George
Altichiero di Zevio
Church of San Zeno, Verona
Bernat Martorell
Paolo Uccello
Paolo Uccello
Cosme Tura
Anonymous
German master,
15th century
Raffaello
Sanzio
Anonymous French master, 16th century
Russian Icon,
1850
Marino Marini
Orpheus Charming the Beasts
Greek neo-attic sarcophagus
Roman
mosaic
Roman mosaic
Roman mosaics
Roman mosaic
Roman mosaic
Roman mosaic
Roman
mosaic
Roman mosaic
Roman mosaic
Roman mosaic and detail
Greek relief,
4th century
Luca della Robbia,
Music (Orpheus),
15th century
Peregrino da Cesena
Hans Leu the Younger
16th century,
Umbria
Anonymous
master,
Malines, Flanders,
16th century
Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Francesco Bassano
Workshop of Dubreuil Toussaint (1561-1602)
Franz von Stuck
Raoul Dufy