Living With Art 5e Online content by Brian Gore
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Art People: Pericles

A master student as well as military and civic leader, Pericles continues to be admired for his support of the arts. It's hard to imagine a political leader today making arts and architecture priorities in the manner of Pericles. The Perseus Project website is an indispensable tool for anyone interested in Pericles or ancient culture in general. At this site, you can see how leaders and thinkers of his time fit into history, and you can find biographies, timelines and historic texts:

Perseus Project: Archaic and Classical Greek History
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=trm+ov+9.3.2  

Art Issues: Restoration

Professional restorers are conscious of how prevailing fashions and tastes might influence their work.  Restoration and preservation work has evolved into globally based, informally regulated professions with its own Code of Ethics:

AIC Code of Ethics and Guidelines for Practice
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/aic/pubs/ethics.html

Images of the Laocoon group can be found at the Vatican Museum website listed below:

Laocoon Group
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/vaticano/SC-Laocoon.jpg

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