Hellenistic Reform. Epicureanism and Image Deviations

The article explores the image foundations of the last classic period, the large-scale socio-political and plastic reform of which led to certain changes in the functioning of the image. The image began to be subtilized and intimized, i.e. to define its traits according to the personal perception which it had never done before. It obtained broad powers of imitating models and resorted to replication, joined in the individual perception and impersonal mass vision, became an object of routine perception and unprivileged lifestyle. The analysis of the epoc's pictorial style will reveal its spirit and - no matter what - the model limitations of the image's existence.

image, effect, affect, apatheism, Epicurus, eidolon, mass perception, routine perception, replication