Already in 1987, Elisa Romano described the first chapter of Book 2 of de Architectura, in which Vitruvius considers the origin of the art of architecture, as the most widely studied section of the treatise (1987.108). Yet despite the long tradition of scholarly investigation, including important contributions by Pierre Gros, Thomas Cole, and, most recently, Mireille Courrént, there is still more to be said about the intellectual infrastructure of Vitruvius’s account (Cole 1990, Vitruvius 1999a.xxxi–xxxiv and 64–81, and Courrént 2011a). My concern is not with sources per se, important as they are, but with understanding the content and structure of Vitruvius’s own argument as it would have been experienced by a contemporary or later reader. As Professor Romano rightly observes,1 Vitruvius’s origin story is a mosaic of philosophical and literary commonplaces. I would like to argue that the pattern of this mosaic transmits important insights and assumptions about the relationship between the physical universe and artistic practice. My more specific claim is that Vitruvius is one of a cluster of authors who find in the Stoic theory of oikeiosis, or conciliation between individual and universe, a justification for artistic activity as an exemplary way of living in accordance with nature. Although individual aspects of Vitruvius’s account overlap with texts or arguments of Democritus, Lucretius, Aristotle, and others, the parallel he develops between the emergence of the arts from within human experience and his own practice as a writer is best understood in relation to Stoic discussions of the role of the arts in the

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Vitruvius de Architectura 第 2 册中的艺术与 Oikeiosis

早在 1987 年，Elisa Romano 就描述了 de Architectura 第 2 卷的第一章，其中维特鲁威认为建筑艺术的起源是该论文 (1987.108) 中研究最广泛的部分。然而，尽管学术研究的悠久传统，包括 Pierre Gros、Thomas Cole 和最近的 Mireille Courrént 的重要贡献，关于 Vitruvius 帐户的知识基础结构仍有更多可说的地方（Cole 1990，Vitruvius 1999a.xxxi– xxxiv 和 64-81，以及 Courrént 2011a)。我关心的不是资料本身，尽管它们很重要，但我关心的是理解维特鲁威自己的论点的内容和结构，就像当代或后来的读者所经历的那样。正如罗马诺教授正确地观察到的那样，1 维特鲁威的起源故事是哲学和文学常识的拼图。我想争辩说，这幅马赛克图案传达了关于物理宇宙与艺术实践之间关系的重要见解和假设。我更具体的主张是，维特鲁威是一群在斯多葛学派的 oikeiosis 理论中找到的作者之一，或个人与宇宙之间的调和，这是将艺术活动作为一种符合自然的模范生活方式的理由。尽管维特鲁威的叙述的个别方面与德谟克利特、卢克莱修、亚里士多德等人的文本或论点重叠，但他在人类经验中的艺术出现与他作为作家的自己的实践之间发展的相似之处，最好与斯多葛学派的讨论联系起来理解艺术在艺术中的作用