When Montaigne quotes verses of Virgil or Horace (in the cases studied), poetry manifests itself as an intertextual element opposite the text, and also as an interartistic phenomenon (because of its classical origins – the recitation of verses as song, accompanied by a musical instrument – the lyre); the interartistic triad is articulated thus – literature-painting-music. We observe multiple relationships in the essay “On friendship” wherethere is a confrontation of texts, that of Montaigne (“a devised painting”) and the quotation from Horace which give intertextuality, but also in the interartistic (virtually interpictoral) phenomenon because of the text of Montaigne followed by the quotation – painting:

It is the body of a beautiful woman, finished off by a fish’s tail

(Horace, Ars poetica, 4; I, 28, p.183)

And the text, which precedes the quotation, also contains within it a painting, followed by the painting-quotation (interpictoral function). But the picture of Montaigne’s text opposite the same quotation-text gives the interartistic. Thust here are varieties:

literature/painting

painting/literature

It is a painting in the text/a text in the painting.

The Interartistic Phenomenon through Montaigne’s Essays, Peter Lang, Bern, 2018, ISBN‏: ‎ 978-3034333177, p.160

„The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose“

                                                                              Michel de Montaigne