The story of art throughout the ages; an illustrated record (1904)
Reinach, Salomon, 1858-1932, Simmonds, Florence · New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 82
of physical sufifering,so touchingly rendered in the head ofthe young giant, is carried still fartherin the famous Laocoon group in theVatican, the work of three Rhodiansculptors, who executed it about theyear 150 B.C. (Fig. 99). Now that themarvels of the great period of Atticart have been… … FIG. 99.—LAOCOON AND HIS SONS.(Museum of the Vatican.) and the most moving. The Trojanpriest, enveloped in the folds of theserpents, sees his two sons dying besidehim, and breathes out his own life ina supreme cry of anguish. A purelyphysical anguish, it has been objected,and the superficial…
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