Laocoon

Laocoon

Marble group

Hellenistic period

Musei Vaticani, Rome

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“Since the eighteenth century, Greek sculpture has been the object of something akin to idolatry, and only recently have we been able to put it more in context. This is not to say that sculpture was the only form of Greek art generally appreciated: though in 1788, Abbé Barthélemy in France was content to depend on literary text to conjure up Classical Greece in describing the travels of the young Anacharsis; as early as 1750, Soufflot was drawing the temples of Paestum and Stuart and Revertt were discovering the architectural monuments of Athens.”(text from: #SculpturefromAntiquitytotheMiddleAge

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