In 1760 its author went to Breslau as secretary to General Tauentzien, the military governor of Silesia.
In 1760 its author went to Breslau as secretary to General Tauentzien, the military governor of Silesia. He  studied philosophy and aesthetics in the Breslau libraries, and the result was this treatise. It states that painting  is bound to observe spatial proximity, whereas the essence of poetry lies not in description but in the representation of the transitory, of movement; in it the author takes issue with the contemporary art historian Johann Winckelmann, who had claimed that art criticism and literary criticism were based on the same principles. FTP what is this 1766 essay by Gotthold Lessing in which the titular Hellenistic statue is used as a central example?
In 1760 its author went to Breslau as secretary to General Tauentzien, the military governor of Silesia.
Laocoon; or, On the Limits of Painting and Poetry, or Laokoon: oder ber die Grenzen der Malerei und Poesie