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
Philosophy
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
Footnote 48:
Val. Flaccus, lib. vi. v. 55, 56. Polymetis, dial. vi. p. 50.
Footnote 49:
See Appendix, note 17.
Footnote 50:
See Appendix, note 18.
Footnote 51:
See Appendix, note 19.
Footnote 52:
Tibullus, Eleg. 4, lib. iii. Polymetis, dial. viii.
Footnote 53:
Statius, lib. i. Sylv. 5, v. 8. Polymetis, dial. viii.
Footnote 54:
See Appendix, note 20.
Footnote 55:
Æneid, lib. viii. 725. Polymetis, dial. xiv.
Footnote 56:
In various passages of his Travels [Remarks on Italy] and his
Dialogues on Ancient Medals.
Footnote 57:
Polymetis, dial. ix.
Footnote 58:
Metamorph. lib. iv. 19, 20. When thou appearest unhorned, thy head is
as the head of a virgin.
Footnote 59:
Begeri Thes. Brandenb. vol. iii. p. 242.
Footnote 60:
Polymetis, dial. vi.
Footnote 61:
Polymetis, dial. xx.
Footnote 62:
Polymetis, dial. vii.
Footnote 63:
Argonaut. lib. ii. v. 102–106. “Gracious the goddess is not emulous to
appear, nor does she bind her hair with the burnished gold, letting
her starry tresses float about her. Wild she is and huge, her cheeks
suffused with spots; most like to the Stygian virgins with crackling
torch and black mantle.”
Footnote 64:
Thebaid. lib. v. 61–64. “Leaving ancient Paphos and the hundred
altars, not like her former self in countenance or the fashion of her
hair, she is said to have loosened the nuptial girdle and have sent
away her doves. Some report that in the dead of night, bearing other
fires and mightier arms, she had hasted with the Tartarean sisters to
bed-chambers, and filled the secret places of homes with twining
snakes, and all thresholds with cruel fear.”
Footnote 65:
See Appendix, note 21.
Footnote 66:
See Appendix, note 22.
Footnote 67:
See Appendix, note 23.
Footnote 68:
Polymetis, dial. vii.
Footnote 69:
See Appendix, note 24.
Footnote 70:
See Appendix, note 25.
Footnote 71:
Lipsius de Vesta et Vestalibus, cap. 13.
Footnote 72:
Pausanias, Corinth. cap. xxxv. p. 198 (edit. Kuhn).
Footnote 73:
Pausanias, Attic. cap. xviii. p. 41.
Footnote 74:
Polyb. Hist. lib. xvi. sect. 2, Op. T. ii. p. 443 (edit Ernest.).
Footnote 75:
See Appendix, note 26.
Footnote 76:
See Appendix, note 27.
Footnote 77:
Polymetis, dial. viii.
Footnote 78:
Statius, Theb. viii. 551.
Footnote 79:
Polymetis, dial. x.
Footnote 80:
See Appendix, note 28.
Footnote 81:
See Appendix, note 29.
Footnote 82:
Betrachtungen über die Malerei, p. 159.
Footnote 83:
Ad Pisones, v. 128–130. “Thou wilt do better to write out in acts the
story of Troy, than to tell of things not yet known nor sung.”
Footnote 84:
Lib. xxxv. sect. 36.
Footnote 85:
See Appendix, note 30.
Footnote 86:
Iliad xxi. 385.
Footnote 87:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
Reviews
Reviews
No reviews yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this work.
Elsewhere in the archive
Join the Discussion
Join the discussion
Sign in to leave a comment or review.
Sign InorCreate an account