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Greek Sculpture. 203 cruelty to their mother. Like the Laocoon, it is full of dramatic life and pathos. The famous head of the dying Alexander in the Uffizi at Florence is supposed to be the work of Rhodian artists, and The Wrestlers mentioned above in connection with Cephisodotus is often attributed to a similar source.* Fig. 84. — The Laocoon. In the Vatican. The school of Pergamus produced many great artists, of whom Isigonus, Pyromachus, Stratonicus, and Anti- gonus were the chief. The great General Attalus celebrated his victory over the Gauls (239 B.C.) by presenting groups of sculpture to
- Casts of these works are in the Crystal Palace.
