Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger), 1830-1903, Redford, George, d. 1895 · Meadville, Penna. : Flood and Vincent : Chautauqua-Century Press · leaf 130
r is said to have called it awonder of art. Pliny speaks of its being in the palaceof the Emperor Titus (lib. xxxvi. c. 5). Michelangelo, whowith Christoforo Romano was directed to examine it, pointedout that it was not of one block, but of three,—one for the sonon the left, another for the figure… … Fig. 137.—The Dying Gladiatob.Jn the Capitoline Museum, Rome, pectoral muscle; the right arm and foot of the younger sonand the same parts of the elder were also broken off and lost.Skillful restorations were made by different ItaUan sculptors. Lord Macaulay has pronounced the essay on Laocoon by…
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