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Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican. Laocoön (/ l eɪ ˈ ɒ k oʊ ˌ ɒ n,-k ə ˌ w ɒ n /; [1] [2] [a] Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, romanized: Laokóōn, IPA: [laokóɔːn], gen.: Λαοκόοντος) is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle.
University of Virginia's Digital Sculpture Project 3D models, bibliography, annotated chronology of the Laocoon; Laocoon photos; Laocoon and his Sons in the Census database; FlickR group "Responses To Laocoön", a collection of art inspired by the Laocoön group; Lessing's Laocoon etext on books.google.com; Loh, Maria H. (2011).
Laocoön or Lacoon, one of the Argonauts [1] [2] [3] and a bastard son of King Porthaon of Calydon by a servant woman and thus half-brother to Oeneus. [1] Oeneus, now growing old, sent his brother Laocoon to guard his young son Meleager during their journey to Colchis. [3] Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon. [4]
Laocoön and His Sons, by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus. Agesander (also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήσανδρος or Ancient Greek: Ἁγήσανδρος) was one, or more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style. [1]
The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by Greek painter El Greco.It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.. [1]The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths of Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon, and his two sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus.
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He was probably the son and pupil of Agesander of Rhodes, and brother of the sculptor Polydorus, with both of whom he assisted in executing the famous Laocoön and His Sons now in the Vatican Museums; [1] these three names are given by Pliny the Elder, describing what is generally accepted to be the same sculpture.