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(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles); purchase by Princeton University Art Museum.\n","remarks":"From accession card. not vetted. Name of dealer updated on 11/21/2023 based on data from Janna Israel. "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"The ancient marble sculpture of the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons strangled by snakes (2.42 meters high) was excavated in Rome in 1506. Pope Julius II acquired and exhibited it in the Belvedere courtyard of the Vatican Palace, where it still stands today. One of the very few documented ancient sculptures, it was praised by Pliny the Elder in his Natural History and said to be by three sculptors from the island of Rhodes. 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