Abstract
Pliny the Elder’s passage on libraries and the presence of the writers’ portraits inside them is one of the most famous in the studies dedicated to this topic. However, the investigation into the importance, for Pliny, of the images of authors has never been extended to all the art historical chapters contained in the Naturalis Historia. This paper intends to analyse the function of writers’ portraits in Books 33-36 of the Naturalis Historia, in order to provide a more complete perspective of the artistic and literary values that Pliny the Elder attributes to these artworks, starting from the way he uses them in his discussion on Greek art and artists.
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