Achilles, sceptre of, 98;
shield of, 113.
Action, culminating point of an, not the point to be represented by the
artist, 16.
Albani, Cardinal Alexander, his discovery of a vase which illustrated
the date of the Laocoon, 178 _et seq._
Anacreon, two odes of, 133, 139.
Apelles, his picture of Diana, 143.
Ariosto, his description of Alcina, 128, 138.
Aristophanes, element of disgust used by, 161.
Aristotle, advice of, to Protogenes, 76;
his reason why we receive pleasure from a faithful copy of the
disagreeable, 154.
Art should express nothing essentially transitory, 17.
Arts among the ancients, subject to the control of law, 10.