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Title: Guide to Italy and Sicily
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macmillan & Co
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Publisher: London, MacMillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e Apollo was placed in this museumby Julius ii. The left hand and armare modern, and inferior to the rest ofthe figure. The right arm, and foot,and ankle were also fractured, andhave been but indifferently repaired. 2 Laocoon. In the group of theLaocoon, the distorted face, the start-ing sinews, and distended limbs of thefather—who, together with his sons, isentwined in the inextricable folds ofthe serpents—offer a most appallingpicture of human suffering, treated withbrutal realism, but great skill. This isthe chief extant example of the art ofRhodes. 3 The famous Torso was the favouritestudy of Michel Angelo and AnnibaleCaracci; the latter of whom, accordingto Lanzi, could give an accuratedrawing of it merely from memory.It is seated on a lions skin, and wasthought to represent Hercules in re-pose, and raised to immortality. Themuscles of the chest show that Herculeswas active, perhaps loudly singing.The Torso is inscribed with the nameof Apollonius, an Athenian sculptor inRome.
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1 Pigna (Egyptian Museum2.< Ut.floor \ Etruscan 2nd.floQ.r 3. Laocoon 4. Mercury 5. PerseusG. Apollo Belvedere 7. Cort.Otiag.del Bellied. 8. Atrio rot on doMe/eager 10. A trio Quadrato 11. Museo Chiaramonti 12. Braccio Nuovo 13. /Ifaps 14. Tapestries 15. GalleriadeiCandefabri 16. So/a cfe//a fi/gcr 17. 5a/a a Ooce Greca 18. Sala rotonda 19. 5a/a ae//e Muse 20. 5a/a degli Animali 21. Gal/eria del/e Statue 22. Gabinetto delleMaschere 23. 5a/a ae/ 5usf/ 24. Gallery of Inscriptions,2J. Entrance (zaideri6)2b.Entrance to Gardens (tinder 16)27. Library (bcloiu 13 14 and IS)28.Loggia Scoperta Vatican Galleries—Sculptures. Walker & Cockcrcll sc. 256 Rome—IX. Vatican Sculptures GUIDE TO ITALY near the entrance, leads into theGiardino della Pigna (permit fromMaggiordomo), so called from acolossal fir-cone in a niche at itsN. end, which once adorned theatrium of the old Basilica. In thecentre is a statue of St. Peter, onan ancient column, commemoratingthe Council of 1870.) The Museo Ch

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