Images of heroism and martyrdom: borrowings from the Vatican Laocoon during the early modern period

Maria Berbara

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Images of heroism and martyrdom: borrowings from the Vatican Laocoon during the early modern period

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Published 2019-09-25

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Maria Berbara

Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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Berbara , M. (2019). Images of heroism and martyrdom: borrowings from the Vatican Laocoon during the early modern period. Figura: Studies on the Classical Tradition, 1, 238–258. Retrieved from https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/figura/article/view/10206

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Why is the Vatican Laocoon sitting down? Why would a man who is being, together with his two sons, mortally wounded, not stand up, or, on the contrary, fall down completely? And why does this unnatural position, after all, does not seem so strange to us?

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