La representación del instante: Lessing y el método pictográfico de Ernst Gombrich

Abstract

Although the representation of a single instant as a limitation to figurative arts in Lessing’s Laokoon has been considered by Ernst Gombrich as the origin of a fallacious conception of art, this article shows the affinity between the idea of “pictographic method” displayed by the Austrian historian and the notions of imagination and verisimilitude proposed by Lessing.