Figures of Olde Werk : Chaucer's Poetic Sculptures
- Author / Editor
- Minnis, A. J.
Figures of Olde Werk : Chaucer's Poetic Sculptures
- Published
- Phillip Lindley and Thomas Frangenberg, eds. Secular Sculpture: 1300-1550 (Stamford: Shaun Tyas), 2000, pp. 124-43.
- Description
- Minnis considers possible sources or inspirations for Chaucer's techniques of describing the architecture and statuary in the Temple of Venus of HF, surveying previous scholarship. Despite the possible influence of actual art and architecture or the descriptions in guidebooks to Rome, descriptions in mythographic tradition are the most likely sources, although Chaucer did not include the allegorizations found there.
- Contributor
- Lindley, Phillip, ed.
- Frangenberg, Thomas, ed.
- Alternative Title
- Secular Sculpture: 1300-1550.
- Chaucer Subjects
- House of Fame.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations