Pisander, possibly Virgil’s predecessor in the history of Laocoon, 34. Pliny, his mention of the Laocoon, 172; of famous Greek sculptors, 173 _et seq._ Poetry, how it surpasses art in description of physical beauty, 137 _et seq._ Polygnotus, pictures of, 123 _et seq._ Pope, contempt of, for descriptive poems, 108; his explanations of Homer, 122 _et seq._ Pordenone, his picture of the entombment, 167. Pyreicus, character of his pictures, 9. Religion, influence of, on art, 62 _et seq._ Richardson, remarks of, on Virgil’s Laocoon, 45; his criticism of Pordenone, 167. Ridiculous, the, heightened by an element of disgust, 161. Sadolet, extract from, 46. Shakespeare, his use of ugliness in the character of Richard III., 151. Sophocles, a Laocoon among his lost works, 6; his description of the desert cave of Philoctetes, 163. Spence, Rev. Mr., criticism of his work “Polymetis,” 50; notions of, in regard to the resemblance between painting and poetry, 55, 57. Statius, his description of an angry Venus, 57 _et seq._ Statues, beautiful, produced beautiful men, 10. Stoicism not adapted to the drama, 6. Stosch, Herr von, his opinion of the Borghese Gladiator, 183. Symbols, use of, in poetry and painting, 67 _et seq._ Temperance, how represented in art, 68 _et seq._ Timanthes, picture of Iphigenia by, 12. Timomachus, his representations of Ajax and Medea, 18. Titian, his picture of the Prodigal Son, 109. Ugliness, as used in poetry, 149, 156; as used in painting, 153, 156. Urania, how represented in art, 67. Vesta, how worshipped, 64 _et seq._ Virgil, description from the Georgics, 106; his description of the shield of Æneas, 114; the Dido of, 133; his introduction of the Harpies, 166. Winkelmann, quoted, 1; soundness of his criticism doubted, 2; his opinion of the Laocoon, 168; his opinion of the Borghese Gladiator, 183; criticism of, 187 _et seq._ Zeuxis, his picture of Helen, 140 _et seq._ ----- Footnote 1: Von der Nachahmung der griechischen Werke in der Malerei und Bildhauerkunst, p. 21, 22. Footnote 2: Brumoy Théât. des Grecs, T. ii. p. 89. Footnote 3: Iliad v. 343. Ἡ δὲ μέγα ἰάχουσα. Footnote 4: Iliad v. 859. Footnote 5: Th. Bartholinus. De Causis contemptæ a Danis adhuc Gentilibus Mortis, cap. 1. Footnote 6: Iliad vii. 421. Footnote 7: Odyssey iv. 195. Footnote 8: Chateaubrun. Footnote 9: See Appendix, note 1. Footnote 10: See Appendix, note 2. Footnote 11: Aristophanes, Plut. v. 602 et Acharnens. v. 854. Footnote 12: Plinius, lib. xxx. sect. 37. Footnote 13: De Pictura vet. lib. ii. cap. iv. sect. 1. Footnote 14: Plinius, lib. xxxiv. sect. 9. Footnote 15: See Appendix, note 3. Footnote 16: See Appendix, note 4. Footnote 17: