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There were also the 17th century "advice to the painter" poems, as in "paint this, paint that." There were a lot of them, invariably political. Marvell wrote a couple. Curiously, when I was involved with them in graduate school in the 60s the term ekphrasis never raised its head. Probably it didn't have nearly the currency it seems to have now. Mark At 01:51 PM 9/5/2003 -0400, you wrote: >But no, ekphrasis is not new. It seems that Pliny the Elder and Philostratus >were ekphrastic writers. MyPenguin Dictionary of Art history states that we >learn through these writers "the content of ancient works of art that have >been lost. Where l9th-century readers of these and other ancient readers >concerned themselves with whether and where the paintings they discussed >actuallyexisted, theorists and historians today look into ekphrasis as an >opportunity to >find layered meanings, for both the original and contemporary readers." > >Harriet