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Because of Covid-19 emergency, the Collection of Plaster Casts and Antiquities<\/strong><\/span>, together with the other museums of Sistema Museale di Ateneo, joins to the Ministry\u2019s appeal and the campaign #iorestoacasa and #museichiusimuseiaperti, opening a virtual window to the collections and activities.
\nIn this section you can find videos, images and downloading contents connected to the project GipsotecaSMArt<\/strong>, that will keep you company during the coming weeks. Follow our project on our site and Facebook with the official hashtag #GipsotecaSMArt<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The project is designed and supervised by Chiara Tarantino (Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge) e Francesca Lemmi, jointly with di Stefano Landucci (Sistema Museale di Ateneo).<\/p>\n

Our section<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Starting from 4th April 2020<\/strong>, the Plaster Cast Collection of Antiquity s keeps its followers company with four new sections<\/strong>:
\n1. In a few words<\/strong>: it provides videos dedicated to sculptures, inspired by quotes from classical authors.
\n2. Originals and copies<\/strong>: it includes short articles and posts on the relationship between the plaster casts and the statues from which they have inspired.
\n3. What the statues don’t say<\/strong>: it shows posts for the youngest with memes and comics.
\n4. Find the statue<\/strong>: a social family game that encourage to observe, create and informally learn.<\/p>\n

Originals and copies<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Laoco\u00f6n’s arm <\/strong>(by Chiara Tarantino)<\/p>\n

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When the statue of\u00a0Laoco\u00f6n, a Trojan\u00a0priest, constricted by the hug of two sea serpents together with his sons, was unearthed in Rome in 1506\u00a0it was not intact: Laoco\u00f6n’s right arm, along with the children arms, and various sections of snake were missing.
\nPope Julius II acquired\u00a0the statue and the most famous artists of the time suggested his realist reconstruction.
\nOver the centuries, the original statue was reconstrued in various ways with different formal solutions, in particular Laoco\u00f6n’s right arm and the serpents.
\nIn 1906 Ludwig Pollak, academic and merchant, discovered the arm compatible with the arm of the group in the shop of a Roman stonemason; it took decades of studies and evaluations to guarantee that the fragment was original.
\nAt the end of 1950s the \u201cPollak\u201d arm was replaced to the reconstructed arm and the other addictions were dismantled: so, today the statue appears in the Vatican Museums as it is.
\nThe Collection\u2019s cast comes from the Vatican\u2019s group before the addictions were dismantled, but in the following phase the copy of the right arm is inserted.<\/p>\n

For more information<\/span>:<\/strong><\/p>\n