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The figures in the statue are nearly life-sized, with the entire group measuring just over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height. The sculpture depicts the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents. [1] The Laocoön Group has been called "the prototypical icon of human agony" in Western art. [4]
Postminimalist artist Eva Hesse named her first major freestanding sculpture—a tall wrapped framework with a tangle of cords—Laocoon (1966). [18] Russian-American author Vladimir Nabokov makes a passing mention of Laocoön is his novel on totalitarianism, Bend Sinister. Martin Amis makes a passing mention of Laocoön is his novel The ...
The original right arm of the Laocoön and His Sons, discovered in 1906 by Pollak.. Ludwig Pollak (14 September 1868, Prague – circa October 23, 1943, [1] Auschwitz concentration camp) was an Austro-Czech classical archaeologist, antiquities dealer, and director of the Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica in Rome.
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.
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 Vatican Museums trace their origin to a single marble sculpture, purchased in the 16th century: Laocoön and His Sons was discovered on 14 January 1506, in a vineyard near the basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. Pope Julius II sent Giuliano da Sangallo and Michelangelo, who were working at the Vatican, to examine the discovery. [11]
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.
Laocoön and His Sons is a 0.83 m high marble sculpture by Joseph Chinard, now in the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon. It is a reduced-scale copy of the ancient Laocoön and His Sons . He received the inspiration for it during a trip to Rome in the 1740s, where he observed the methods of Doccia porcelain .