effictio

Dozens of refinements on standard descriptions hold meaning for ut pictura poesis but the matter is complicated since many medi - eval and Renaissance rhetoricians are in conflict over both definitions and examples for descriptio, charac - terismus, effictio, mimesis, notatio, informatio, diatypo - sis, prosopographia, prosopopoeia, and many other categories that demand varying amounts of formed concrete detail.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968

The nineteenth-century painter continued to develop the interest in the audience's imaginative involvement and so, through the use of vague sugges - tion rather than through the completeness of the medi - eval effictio.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOHN GRAHAM 1968