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Milo of Crotona

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…highly original works like the Milo of Crotona; here the composition of a figure rigid with pain is given an almost unbearable tension.
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…in works such as the Milo of Crotona (c. 1671–82), in which the athlete Milo, whose hand is caught in a tree stump, is portrayed under attack by a lion.
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