De la rhétorique au geste : l’actio dans le portrait peint de la Renaissance italienne

As early as the Quattrocento, portraitists such as Marco d’Oggiono and Botticelli depicted gestures described by the De institutione oratoria (Institutes of Oratory). This didactic treatise on rhetoric in twelve volumes, written by Quintilian in the 1st century AD, was also influential in the educat...

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