This play's author included some of his ideas about painting in its second scene, in which one character says that "It is the province of art to paint as plastic nature--if there is such a thing--intended her original design, without the defects which the unmanageable materials render inevitable, and free from the ravages which result from a conflict with time.
This play's author included some of his ideas about painting in its second scene, in which one character says that "It is the province of art to paint as plastic nature--if there is such a thing--intended her original design, without the defects which the unmanageable materials render inevitable, and free from the ravages which result from a conflict with time." At the beginning of this play, one character buys a portrait of the title character instead of a portrait of the title character from the painter Conti. This play is based on Livy's story about the overthrow of the decemivir as an indirect consequence of Appius Claudius's lust for Verginia. In the third act of this play, (*) Appiani is murdered on the way to his wedding with the title character, whose father, Odoardo, is influenced by Orsina to stab her near the end of this play. At the end of this play, the prince Hettore Gonzaga banishes his devious chamberlain Marinelli. For 10 points, name this bourgeois tragedy about an Italian woman, a play by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing.
This play's author included some of his ideas about painting in its second scene, in which one character says that "It is the province of art to paint as plastic nature--if there is such a thing--intended her original design, without the defects which the unmanageable materials render inevitable, and free from the ravages which result from a conflict with time.
{Emilia Galotti}