Laocoon's body and the aesthetics of pain Winckelmann, Lessing, Herder, Moritz, Goethe

Before the sixteenth century, no one had seen the Greek statue, the Laocoon, since antiquity, but popular aesthetic judgment insisted that it was an ideal work of art, the unapproachable model for imitation and aspiration. When in 1506 a vintner found the statue just outside Rome, the contradiction...

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