The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 391
r sufficiently authentic or not, furnishes a charac-teristic trait of the man. The pope passing through theroom allotted for the pictures, and instead of designs andcartoons, finding nothing but an apparatus of distilleryof oils and varnishes, exclaimed, Ah me! he means todo nothing, for he thinks… … THE LAOCOON. GROUP IN MARBLE. The group of the Laocoon was discovered at Rome^in the year 1508, in a recess of the ruins of the baths ofTitus, where it most probably stood, in the time of Pliny,who has described it to be there in the reign of thatemperor. This important discovery is due to Felice…
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