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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Il Laocoonte

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The Laocoonte, one of Apollo's priests, is shown in one of the 2nd century BC's most awkward moments.

It was nevertheless a ascene that Agesandro of Rhods and two colleagues turned into a moving sculptural composition.

Two serpents surprised the priest and his two sonds and they are shown here fighting for their lives.

The dismembered group was found in Rome and reassembled in 1532.

In 1905, an arcehaeologist named Ludwig Pollack saw a marble arm in a shop near the Colosseum and realisted that it was the missing arm of the Laocoonte.

Restoration was done in 1957.

A photo of the 16th-century botched-up restoration stands near today's presumably correct version.

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