The same German aesthetic tradition can also be found in J.J Winckelmann's writings, such as "History of the Art of Antiquity", "Thoughts on the Imitation of the Painting and Sculpture of the Greeks", and G.E Lessing's "Laocöon". ... His philosophy of art takes account of the beauty in art, the historical development of art, and individual forms of art, such as, architecture, painting, literature, sculpture, poetry, and music. ... In "Symbolic" art the content is formed abstractly, it is not able to demonstrate itself sufficiently enough ...

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The relationship between Good and Beauty as well as Life and Art in ThePicture of Dorian Gray In my essay I am going to examine how appears in The Picture of Dorian Gray the question of "Beauty- and, what is strongly related to it especially at Wilde, the question of art. I refer to some of his former writings especially to The Decay of Lying (In Intentions, 1891) which has a conceptual similarity to the novella. I look into the connection between Beauty and another complex aesthetic concept, the concept of Good. I will examine Lord Henry's character as the "Seducer-. One of the mai...

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