Artist
Filippo Agricola
Filippo Agricola is a Romanticism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Filippo Agricola spent decades hunched over a single marble torso, sketching the same contorted figure over and over. His 1800–1857 drawings of the Laocoön show every sinew, not to copy but to really look, he once erased half a page after noticing a shadow fell wrong. You’ll find this habit in the Getty’s study room: where others rushed past, he lingered until the sculpture felt like it might breathe.
Track down his Study of the Laocoön there and watch how a single sheet can turn a lifeless cast into something alive.
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