Laocoon

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Laocoon

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Also known as: “Laocoon: or, On the Limits of Painting and Poetry”, “Laokoon: oder über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie”(Show More)

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Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Rising reputation as dramatist and critic.
One is the great treatise Laokoon: oder über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (1766; “Laocoon; or, On the Limits of Painting and Poetry”). Here he took issue with the contemporary art historian Johann Winckelmann, specifically over his interpretation of the “Laocoon,” a famous sculpture of Hellenistic times (c. 1st…
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One is the great treatise Laokoon: oder über die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie (1766; “Laocoon; or, On the Limits of Painting and Poetry”). Here he took issue with the contemporary art historian Johann Winckelmann, specifically over his interpretation of the “Laocoon,” a famous sculpture of Hellenistic times (c. 1st…
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