Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Rhetoric of Familiarity

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The silent rhetoric, or rhetoric tacens of art, may include objects commonly encountered in a church. For example, the San Zaccaria Alterpiece painting of 1505 includes a church "lamp"! Certainly a "lamp" would not be part of a major work of art, except as a rhetorical device to make a biblical scene seem part of the viewer's environment.

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