Laocoon

Excerpt from Laocoon

XIV. Un poeme rempli de belles peintures n'offre pas toujours de beaux sujets de tableaux, et reciproquement. Caylus a tort de juger du merite d'un poeme par le nombre de tableaux qu'il fournit au peintre. C'est a tort qu'il rabaisse -milton. Difference entre la peinture poetique et la peinture plastique.

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