Anecdotes of painters, engravers, sculptors and architects, and curiosities of art (1880)
Spooner, Shearjashub, 1809-1859 · New York, A. W. Lovering · leaf 540
per-sons in agony, but in different attitudes of strug-gling or fear, according to their ages, and the mentalanguish of the father. All connoisseurs declare thegroup perfect, the product of the most thoroughknowledge of anatomy, of character, and of idealperfection. According to Phny, it was the… … [Vol. II. 188. SCULPTORS, AND ARCHll-ECTS. 189 Bays, The Laocoon, which is in the palace of theEmperor Titus, is a work to be preferred to allothers, either in painting or sculpture. Those greatartists, Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenadorus,Rhodians, executed the principal figure, the sons,and the…
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