Laocoön : the discovery, fortunes, and interpretations of a hidden masterpiece [videorecording] / [lecture by] Luca Giuliani ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Laocoön : the discovery, fortunes, and interpretations of a hidden masterpiece [videorecording] / [lecture by] Luca Giuliani ; [sponsored by the J. Paul Getty Museum].

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Lecture presented by Luca Giuliani, professor of Greek and Roman archaeology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat in Munich, Germany. The lecture explores the lasting influence of the Laocoön, an extraordinary sculptural group that was discovered in Rome five hundred years ago. Immediately acquired by Pope Julius II and placed in the courtyard of his villa at the Vatican, the statue was an instant sensation. It was shuttered off, however, during the Counter Reformation and became invisible for almost two hundred years. Paradoxically, this was the period of its greatest fame, when it inspired numerous other scholars, artists, and connoisseurs, and was interpreted by the archaeologist and art historian J. J. Winckelmann.

1 videodisc of 1 (DVD) (54 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

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