... of the Baroque aesthetic, it was seen as an oxymoron: the ugliness, and sometimes even the horror, of what was represented through mimesis revealed the full extent of art and the artist’s power of transfiguration. ...
... arts must no longer respond to the ‘mimesis’ but to the ‘phantasia’, which is meant to be creative imagination which translates the transcendent beauty and truth into the earthly world (Philostratus, Apollonius ...
... Mariia A. Chernysheva (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) Quatremère de Quincy on Mimesis. A Classical Concept in the Neoclassical Theory of Arts
3.5.11. Olga V. Permiakova (Ekaterinburg Museum ...