Early Christian numismatics, and other antiquarian tracts (1873)
King, C. W. (Charles William), 1818-1888 · London, Bell & Daldy · leaf 196
ng, as displaying a totallydifferent manner of treating the subject: neither inspiredby the poets description nor by the extant group.And yet the importance of the latter in every age ofthe empire would, it were to be supposed, have madeit the fixed model for all future painters. But here,Laocoon… … Picture in the Codex Vaticanus. To face page lfj4. INTAGLIO OF THE LAOCOON. 165 metrically downwards at his liips. He wears a copeflying in the air over his head. A child destroyed by a serpent must have been avery favourite subject with the Greek sculptors, tojudge from the frequency with which…
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