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    The Laocoön sculpture departs from Virgil's literary depi... — Carmelics
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    The Laocoön sculpture departs from Virgil's literary depiction of Laocoön

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    • 1.In Virgil's account, Laocoön pierces heaven with his cries
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    • 2.In the sculpture, the mouth is opened rather to discharge an anxious, overloaded groan, not a heaven-piercing shriek
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    • 1.Lessing's own account acknowledges the sculptor worked within distinct medium-specific constraints, not from Virgil's text directly.
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    • 2.The sculpture predates Virgil's Aeneid, making departure from Virgil's depiction a conceptual impossibility rather than an artistic choice.
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    • 3.When two works share a mythological source independently, divergence reflects separate traditions, not deviation of one from the other.
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    • 1.Winckelmann argued the open mouth in the sculpture achieves noble simplicity consistent with Greek ideals of restrained suffering.
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    • 2.If both the cry and the groan express anguish authentically, the difference is one of degree within the same expressive register, not a departure.
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    • 3.Lessing's distinction between shriek and groan relies on an anachronistic imposition of Virgilian narrative priority onto an independent sculptural tradition.
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    ’Tis in the face of Laocoön this soul shines with full lustre, not confined however to the face, amidst the most violent sufferings. Pangs piercing every muscle, every labouring nerve; pangs which we almost feel ourselves, while we consider—not the face, nor the most expressive parts—only the belly contracted by excruciating pains: these however, I say, exert not themselves with violence, either in the face or gesture. He pierces not heaven, like the Laocoön of Virgil; his mouth is rather opened
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