. St. Nicholas [serial] . ures ofPraxiteles; a painting by Apelles, called the Alex-ander Ceraunophorus, was there, and was acelebrated picture; and it is probable that manyother artists of whom we have heard were em-ployed in its decoration. This great temple was plundered by the EmperorNero ; the Goths carried the work of its destructionstill farther in 260 A. D. ; and, finally, under theEmperor Theodosius, A. D. 381, when all pagan dest place, and has the least to repay one who goesthere, of all the ruined cities which I have seen. The Laocoon Group. This famous piece of statuary, now in th
. St. Nicholas [serial] . ures ofPraxiteles; a painting by Apelles, called the Alex-ander Ceraunophorus, was there, and was acelebrated picture; and it is probable that manyother artists of whom we have heard were em-ployed in its decoration. This great temple was plundered by the EmperorNero ; the Goths carried the work of its destructionstill farther in 260 A. D. ; and, finally, under theEmperor Theodosius, A. D. 381, when all pagan dest place, and has the least to repay one who goesthere, of all the ruined cities which I have seen. The Laocoon Group. This famous piece of statuary, now in the Vati-can Museum, at Rome, is not very old in compari-son with many of the works we have described, itsprobable date being the time of the Emperor Titus,who lived from A. r>. 40 to 81. He was a liberalpatron of art, and it is believed that Agesander, Poly-dorus, and Athenodorus, sculptors of Rhodes, ex-ecuted this work at the command of Titus, in whosepalace it was placed. In 1506 it was found in the excavation of the. IJjI^ THE LAOCOON GROUP. worship was suppressed, this temple was destroyed,and now almost nothing remains at Ephesus toremind one of its past grandeur. It is probablethat the materials which composed the temple, andother noble buildings there, have been carried toConstantinople and other cities, and much maystill be hidden beneath the soil; but it is the sad- baths of Titus, and was placed in the Vatican byPope Julius II. An arm, which was wanting, wasrestored by an Italian sculptor named BaccioBandinelli. Napoleon Bonaparte carried it toParis, but in 1815 the group was returned to Rome,together with other art treasures which he hadborne away. STORIES OF ART AND ARTISTS. 405 This work illustrates the story of Laocoon, whowas a priest of Troy. When the Greeks left thewooden horse outside that city, and pretended tosail away, Laocoon warned the Trojans of the dan- work of two brothers, Apollonius and Tauriscus ofRhodes, and was carried from Rhodes to Rome byAsi
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