Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and PoetryLongman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1853 - 255 pages |
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... Lysippus , and with which he was the first to enrich art , to conceive it possible that it should be the production of an age preceding him . But supposing it proved that the Laocoon cannot be of greater antiquity than the age of Lysippus ...
... Lysippus , and with which he was the first to enrich art , to conceive it possible that it should be the production of an age preceding him . But supposing it proved that the Laocoon cannot be of greater antiquity than the age of Lysippus ...
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... Lysippus . But if so , the statement which Winkelmann maintains , that Athenodorus and his fellow sculptors were contem- poraries of Apelles and Lysippus must be incorrect . At this conclusion we are compelled to arrive ; for if it is ...
... Lysippus . But if so , the statement which Winkelmann maintains , that Athenodorus and his fellow sculptors were contem- poraries of Apelles and Lysippus must be incorrect . At this conclusion we are compelled to arrive ; for if it is ...
Page 252
... Lysippus quoque Eginæ picturæ suæ inscripsit , évékavσev : " quod profecto non fecisset , nisi encaustica inventa : " it is manifest that he here adduces the word évéκavσev as a proof of a very different fact . Had he , as Harduin ...
... Lysippus quoque Eginæ picturæ suæ inscripsit , évékavσev : " quod profecto non fecisset , nisi encaustica inventa : " it is manifest that he here adduces the word évéκavσev as a proof of a very different fact . Had he , as Harduin ...
Page 254
... Lysippus mentioned above , where the third is to be found I know not . Even if I could find it mentioned in any other author than Pliny , I should feel no difficulty . It ought however to be found in Pliny , and there , I repeat , it is ...
... Lysippus mentioned above , where the third is to be found I know not . Even if I could find it mentioned in any other author than Pliny , I should feel no difficulty . It ought however to be found in Pliny , and there , I repeat , it is ...
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Achilles Æneid Æsop Agesander ancient artists Apelles appears Athenodorus attributes Bacchus beauty bodily pain body Cæsars called Caylus Chabrias CHAPTER charm contrary Craterus Dial disgusting divine effect executed expression eyes feel figure FRANVILLE fury goddess gods Greek hand Harduin Helen Hercules hero History of Art Homer horrible Ialysus idea Iliad imagination imitation kind LAMURE Laocoon latter less Lysippus Mars master means ment mentioned nature Neoptolemus never Nicias NOTE object observation Olympiad Ovid painter painting passage Pausanias Phidias Philoctetes picture piece pleasure Pliny poet poetical poetry Polydorus Polygnotus Polymetis produce Pythodorus quæ reason render representation represented Roman says sculptors sensations serpents shew shield shriek single Sophocles sorrow speaking Spence Statius statue suffering supposed taste Thersites tion traits true ugliness Venus Vesta Virgil visible whilst whole Winkelmann wish words δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τε τὸ
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