Cinema & Originals · 2023
Rome, 1798. The Laocoön group, seized from the Vatican Museums during Napoleon’s Italian Campaign, begins a forced journey to Paris. What follows is the story of an attempt at restitution: sculptor and negotiator Antonio Canova navigating European courts to bring one of antiquity’s masterworks home.
An animated short about the systematic looting of Italian cultural heritage and the men who tried to stop it.
