Laocoon : $b An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
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Laocoon : $b An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry. With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art.
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800; Agesander. Laocoön group
German language, compared to the Greek, 113.
Gladiator, Borghese, the author’s theory in regard to the, 184 _et
seq._
Gladiatorial shows, effect of, 29.
Haller, Von, description quoted from his “Alps,” 103.
Hercules, as represented by Sophocles, 6;
the, of Sophocles, 31.
Hogarth, his criticism of the Apollo Belvidere, 145.
Homer, expressions of pain in his heroes, 4;
representation of his heroes, 79 _et seq._;
his descriptions not generally available for pictures, 83, 143;
his picture of Pandarus, 89;
style of, 93;
his description of the chariot of Juno, 94;
his description of the sceptre of Agamemnon, 95;
of the shield of Achilles, 98, 113, 118;
of the bow of Pandarus, 99;
his indebtedness to the flexibility of the Greek language, 112;
his description of the beleaguered city, 121;
avoids detailed description, 127;
his representation of Helen, 136;
his Thersites, 148 _et seq._
Imitations of the poet by the artist and the reverse, 49 _et seq._
Invention required less of the artist than of the poet, 72 _et seq._
Junius, Francis, an unsafe authority, 188.
Juno, how represented in ancient art, 57.
Kleist, Von, his own judgment of his poem “Spring,” 108.
Klotzius, on the effects of different forms of the disagreeable in art,
158.
Laocoon, of Virgil, 20 _et seq._;
compared with the statue, 36 _et seq._;
contains traits unavailable for the artist, 42;
the group of, possibly suggested by Virgil’s description, 43 _et
seq._;
the, probable date of, 170 _et seq._
Longinus, his remarks in regard to eloquence and poetry, 188.
Lucian represents physical beauty by comparison with statues, 135.
Manasses, Constantinus, his pictures of Helen, 127.
Martiani, his opinion in regard to the date of the Laocoon, 34 _et
seq._
Mazzuoli, his “Rape of the Sabines,” 109.
Mengs, his criticism on Raphael’s drapery, 110.
Milton furnishes few subjects for a painter, 87.
Minerva, how represented in ancient art, 57, 78.
Montfaucon, his want of taste, 14;
his opinions in regard to the date of the Laocoon, 33 _et seq._
Olympic judges, law of the, 10.
Ovid, his description of Lesbia, 137;
his description of the punishment of Marsyas, 163;
his picture of famine, 165.
Pain, expression of, in Sophocles, 3;
in Homer, 4, 5;
among Europeans, 4;
among the Greeks, 5;
in its disfiguring extreme, not compatible with beauty, 13;
expression of, among the English, 26.
Painting among the Greeks confined to imitation of beauty, 8.
Passion, violent, not expressed in ancient art, 12.
Pauson, character of his pictures, 9.
Phidias, his indebtedness to Homer, 144 _et seq._
Philoctetes of Sophocles, the, his sufferings compared with those of
Laocoon, 3;
the, of Pythagoras Leontinus, 14;
of Sophocles, the embodiment of physical and mental suffering, 23,
24, 30.
Picturesque, the, in poetry, 88.
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