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The statue of Laocoön and His Sons, also called the Laocoön Group (Italian: Gruppo del Laocoonte), has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and put on public display in the Vatican Museums, [2] where it remains today.
13 Οκτ 2024 · The Laocoön Group is believed to represent a scene from Greek mythology in which Laocoön, a Trojan priest, and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus, are attacked by two giant sea serpents.
Laocoon was a priest who advised against letting the wooden horse inside Troy, warning of “Greeks bearing gifts”. Not only was he ignored but the gods, taking the Greek side in the myth, sent serpents to kill him and his sons.
Laocoön (/ leɪˈɒkoʊˌɒn, - kəˌwɒn /; [1][2][a] Ancient Greek: Λαοκόων, romanized: Laokóōn, IPA: [laokóɔːn], gen.: Λαοκόοντος) is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle. Laocoön is a Trojan priest.
Perhaps the single best known sculpture from antiquity, the so-called Laocoön group, was found in Rome in 1506 and placed on public display in the Vatican, where it remains. This cast was made from the marble original and acquired by the Ashmolean from the British Museum in 1933.
16 Μαΐ 2024 · The Laocoön Group is referenced in antiquity in the works of Pliny the Elder, who may be the most well-known Roman writer of art. Pliny says that Laocoön stood in the palace of the emperor Titus and was the work of three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes.
This statue group was found in 1506 on the Esquiline Hill in Rome and immediately identified as the Laocoön described by Pliny the Elder as a masterpiece of the sculptors of Rhodes.
