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Originally posted by Atticus Grinch
If that strikes you as touchy-feely, so be it. Michelangelo was correct about the position of Laocoön's arm in the Agesander, Athenedoros and Polydorus marble of the Laocoön Group, but he had to wait until 1957 to be vindicated over Raphael. The oxen are slow, but the earth is patient.
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True enough, but remember everyone agreed that Laocoön was too short to see over the interior linemen of the time, and thus had to be a rollout, scrambling passer. As such, he couldn't go downfield much, and so had less need for a tight spiral on his throws.
