An outline history of sculpture for beginners and students, with complete indexes and numerous illustrations (1893)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, F.A. Stokes · leaf 87
the horse would prove a blessing tothem, and they drew it into the city, and ordered feasts andsacrifices to be celebrated to do honor to the occasion.Laocoon had much offended Pallas Athene by his wordsand acts, and when he went to prepare a sacrifice to Nep-tune that goddess sent two huge… … Fig. 51.—The Laocoon Group. In the Laocoon group it appears that the eldest son willsave himself, and in certain minor points the sculptors seemnot to have followed the account of Virgil ; but we seethat it must be the same story that is illustrated, and we 76 SCULPTURE. know that it was told with…
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