Abstract
This project, "Ekphrasis in the poetry of Albano Martins," is a continuation of interdisciplinary research I have been undertaking for several years on the rhetorical device of ekphrasis. Originally, ekphrasis merely referred to the literary description of objects, such as when poets create a mimesis of nature. As in the poet Horace's concept of ut pictura poesis ('as is painting, so is …