* Laocoon: an essay on the limits of painting and poetry, translated by Edward Allen McCormick.

Lessing is important as a literary critic for his work Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.

The most influential contribution to the debate in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's essay Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry, which examines the differences between visual and literary art by comparing the sculpture with Virgil's verse.

* Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry by Lessing

* Laocoon, translated by Sir Robert Phillimore, London, G. Routledge & sons, 1905.

* Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, translated by William A.

* Laocoon, Nathan the Wise, Minna von Barnhelm, translated by William A.

In Stave V of A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens ( 1843 ), Scrooge awakes on Christmas morning "... making a perfect Laocoon of himself with his stockings.

According to Apollodorus, it was Apollo who sent the two serpents since Laocoon had insulted Apollo by sleeping with his wife in front of the " divine image ".

* copy of Laocoon, at the time in the Cortile del Belvedere, commissioned by Pope Leo X as a gift to François I. Bandinelli boasted that he would exceed the original, and when he was finished, after a hiatus during the pontificate of Adrian VI, the Medici Pope Clement VII could not bear to part with it, sent some antiquities to the King of France in its stead, and sent Baccio's Laocoon to Florence.

It was read with intense interest by Lessing, who found in the earliest of Winckelmann's works the starting-point for his Laocoon, and by Herder, Goethe and Kant.

* Rachel hiding Idols from her Father and Laocoon attacked by Serpents ; after Pietro da Cortona.

Similar traits can be seen in the Laocoön group which is a reworked copy of a lost original that was likely close both in time and place of origin to Nike, but while Laocoon, vastly admired by Renaissance and classicist artists, has come to be seen as a more self-conscious and contrived work, Nike of Samothrace is seen as an iconic depiction of triumphant spirit and of the divine momentarily coming face to face with man.

His theoretical writings Laocoon and Hamburg Dramaturgy ( Hamburgische Dramaturgie ) set the standards for the discussion of aesthetic and literary theoretical principles.

* Laocoon.

There is also another Laocoon who was the tutor or uncle of Meleager.

Another, lesser-known Acoetes was father to Laocoon, who warned about the Trojan Horse.

File: Laocoon Pio-Clementino Inv1059-1064-1067. jpg | Laocoön and his Sons, Greek, ( Late Hellenistic ), circa 160 BC and 20 BC, White marble, Vatican Museum

Among others, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing based many of the ideas in his ' Laocoon ' ( 1766 ) on Winckelmann's views on harmony and expression in the visual arts.

Montreal: Laocoon Press, 1954.

Image: Laocoon blake. jpg | Blake's Laocoön print, c. 1820

In Aeneid, it is also the island from which twin serpents came to kill the Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons as punishment for throwing a spear at the Trojan Horse.

Poetry in the post-war period followed a number of interlinked paths, most notably deriving from surrealism ( such as with the early work of René Char ), or from philosophical and phenomenological concerns stemming from Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, existentialism, the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and Stéphane Mallarmé's notions of the limits of language.

Poetry in the post-war period followed a number of interlinked paths, most notably deriving from surrealism ( such as with the early work of René Char ), or from philosophical and phenomenological concerns stemming from Heidegger, Friedrich Hölderlin, existentialism, the relationship between poetry and the visual arts, and Stéphane Mallarmé's notions of the limits of language.

An essay upon the limits of painting and poetry: With remarks illustrative of various points in the history of ancient art, translated by Ellen Frothingham.

Jesus referred to the pair collectively as " Boanerges " ( translated " sons of thunder ") being that although their nature was of a calm and gentle manner, when their patience was pushed to its limits their anger became wild, fierce and thunderous causing them to speak out like an untamed storm.

As a physician in a nursing home he has written about physician assisted suicide ( which has been legal in the Netherlands for some years ), most notably in his book Het refrein is Hein, which was translated into English ( by Keizer himself ) as Dancing with Mr D. His style is contemplative, with an undercurrent of realism ( or some would say pessimism ) about the limits of medicine which most people prefer not to think about, and a remarkable intellectual honesty about the emotions of the patient as well as the physician.

The origin of the name is from Nahuatl and means “ over the point or nose of the earth ” but it can also be translated at “ the limits of the earth .”

The Greek word chora ( χώρα ) is used in the original Greek, translated " country " in the King James Version, but it can also be defined as meaning " the space lying between two places or limits " or " an empty expanse ".

The limits are suggested by an imaginary experiment: contrast the perceptual skill of English professors with that of their colleagues in discriminating among motor cars, political candidates, or female beauty.

Certainly all can applaud passage of an auto title law, the school bills, the increase in teacher pensions, the ban on drag racing, acceptance by the state of responsibility for maintenance of state roads in municipalities at the same rate as outside city limits, repeal of the college age limit law and the road maintenance bond issue.

The Department of Defense appropriation acts for the past several years have contained a rider which limits competitive bidding by firms in other countries on certain military supply items.

the purpose of producing plays at the College is three-fold: to provide the Carleton students with the best possible opportunity for theater-going within the limits set by the maturity and experience of the performers and the theatrical facilities available ; ;

It should be possible, however, to put useful limits on the diameters of the radio sources by observing with large reflectors or with interferometers.

Sample areas in the new investigations were selected strictly by application of the principles of probability theory, so as to be representative of the total population of defined areas within calculable limits.

States were free to enact, within broad, though ( perhaps ) determinate limits, their own rules as to the application of foreign law by their courts, to vary the law merchant, and to enact legislation with regard to many claims arising on the high seas.

High-gain, photoelectronic image intensification is applied under conditions of low incident light levels whenever the integration time required by a sensor or recording instrument exceeds the limits of practicability.

The Xanthorrhoeaceae, or grasstree, family has been recognized by most taxonomists, but the limits of the family have varied greatly.

With this, the perspective of the author is removed from the text, and the limits formerly imposed by the idea of one authorial voice, one ultimate and universal meaning, are destroyed.

However, the scarcity and poor quality of road infrastructure limits land transportation by conventional vehicles.

Disability is defined by the ADA as " a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits a major life activity ".

He concludes the volume by setting out the limits of knowledge once and for all.

In the 5th century at least there were scarcely any limits on the power exercised by the assembly.

No variables could be allowed to exceed the computer's limits, and differentiation was to be avoided, typically by rearranging the " network " of interconnects, using integrators in a different sense.

This obviously limits the usefulness of silence as a tactic by the defense.

With these elements, hydride atomization enhances detection limits by a factor of 10 to 100 compared to alternative methods.

The Gaussian theory, however, is only true so long as the angles made by all rays with the optical axis ( the symmetrical axis of the system ) are infinitely small, i. e. with infinitesimal objects, images and lenses ; in practice these conditions are not realized, and the images projected by uncorrected systems are, in general, ill defined and often completely blurred, if the aperture or field of view exceeds certain limits.

Many amplifiers are ultimately slew rate limited ( typically by the impedance of a drive current having to overcome capacitive effects at some point in the circuit ), which sometimes limits the full power bandwidth to frequencies well below the amplifier's small-signal frequency response.

In laboratory tests, state researchers found the average brass key, new or old, exceeded the California Proposition 65 limits by an average factor of 19, assuming handling twice a day.

Bordered by the coasts of Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Germany extends north-eastward of the following limits:

Because breasts are mostly fatty tissue, their shape can within limits be molded by clothing, such as foundation garments.

Paths are not bound by the limits of rasterized images and are intuitive to modify.

The recent measurements made by WMAP, for example, have placed limits on the neutrino masses.