Famous sculpture as seen and described by great writers (1910)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930 · New York, Dodd · leaf 234
es, Agesander,Polydorus and Athenodorus, made de consilii sententia of one stone, Laoc-oon himself, his children, and the wonderful folds of the serpents. Heconsidered it preferable to all other works of pictorial or plastic art,and described it as standing in the Palace of Titus. This group was… … THE LAOCOON, VATICAN THE LAOCOON 171 had clothed him with; he is a father with his two sons, indanger of destruction from two fierce animals. In likemanner, we see no messenger of the gods, but two plain,natural serpents, powerful enough to overcome a man, but,by no means, either in form or…
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