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AN ENGLISH SCULPTED MARBLE RELIEF OF THE LAOCOON
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AN ENGLISH SCULPTED MARBLE RELIEF OF THE LAOCOON

SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY

细节
AN ENGLISH SCULPTED MARBLE RELIEF OF THE LAOCOON
Second half 16th century
16in. (40.6cm.) high
来源
The Dukes of Westminster, Eaton Hall, Cheshire.
注意事项
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拍品专文

The medallion, inspired by Virgil's account of a Grecian legend (Aeneid II,199-231), depicts the punishment of the Trojan priest Laocoön, who was strangled by serpents at Apollo's altar. While the figure of the priest derives from the celebrated antiquity discovered in Rome in 1506 and displayed in the Vatican Museum's Belvedere, the posture of his sons has been rendered in a more dramatic fashion. A variety of reconstructions of the antique group were produced in the sixteenth century before the final position of the sons was chosen quite arbitrarily.