SYMPLEGMA

Speranza

Pliny speaks of SYMPLEGMATA, i.e. 'closely involved groups'.

A symplegma, then, is a closely involved statuary group.

Plinio considered that

CEFISODOTO and
ELIODORO,

the sons of PRASSITELE,

were good at the symplegma, or rather, just did them.

"I LOTTATORI", found in 1583, Roma.

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