Pleasing horror: empathic response to suffering and pain in Antique sculpture

Three antique sculptures, the Hanging Marsyas, the Farnese Bull, and the Laocoön, display intense expressions of suffering and pain. Drawing on ancient sources and modern research on embodied simulation and mirror neurons, the article discusses the connection between motion and emotion and the scul...

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Main Author: Bente Kiilerich
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Oslo Library 2023-12-01
Series:Acta ad Archaeologiam et Artium Historiam Pertinentia
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Online Access:https://journals.uio.no/acta/article/view/10488
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