Showing posts with label Wang Percentage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wang Percentage. Show all posts

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Pankration

The only proscriptions in the pankration were eye-gouging and biting.  (The nicely positioned Pieta and Last Supper are a bonus.)

Thursday, May 19, 2011

Laocoön Redux

I don't know who duplicated the famed statue in miniature, or when the scoundrel carried it out.  I do notice that Laocoön straightens his right arm to pull the snake away in this copy, while the Vatican displays the current construction with the elbow bent to reach behind himself.  (n.b. also of the precipitous decline in wang percentage)




Just a guy wearing a fig leaf, hanging out with his naked sons, being attacked by snakes.  Nothing to see here, move along folks.