Introduction

Ancient War and Modern Art: Some Remarks on Historical Painting from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

“…43. See for instance:Michelakis and Wyke 2013;Carlà 2014a;Rogers and Stevens 2015;Janka and Stierstorfer 2017;Rogers and Stevens 2019;Fletcher and Umurhan 2019;Rollinger 2020.Chapter 2 Ancient War and Modern Art: Some Remarks on Historical Painting from the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries16. An old English version of Lessing's text: ' A review of the reasons here alleged for the moderation observed by the sculptor of the Laocoon, in the expression of bodily pain, shows them to lie wholly in the peculiar object of his art and its necessary limitations'(Lessing 1887: 20); cf.Lessing 1974: 28 (Schranken and Bedürfnisse in original German).…”