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...

mythology and the Epic Cycle. Laocoön is a Trojan priest. He and his two young sons are attacked by giant serpents, sent by the gods when Laocoön argued...

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...

Vatican's Laocoön and His Sons. Carpeaux won the Prix de Rome in 1854. While in Rome, he stayed in the French Academy in Rome's Villa Medici and studied...

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...

Laocoon, or Laocoön, may refer to: Laocoön, the Trojan priest of Poseidon Laocoon (mythology), mythological characters named Laocoon. Laocoön and His...

later, as Pliny says the Laocoön belonged to the Emperor Titus in his day. Agesander is named first by Pliny as artist of the Laocoön, with Athenodoros second...

show his skill in a dramatic anatomical pose. It was a more compact equivalent of the Roman group of Laocoön and His Sons. Ancient sources and legends...

put the sculpture, which represents the Trojan priest Laocoön and his two sons, Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by giant serpents, on public...

works of Greek sculpture belong to this period, including Laocoön and His Sons, Venus de Milo, and the Winged Victory of Samothrace. It follows the period...

destruction. Soon after he casts his spear, enormous twin serpents slither out of the sea and attack Laocoön's sons. When Laocoön tries to help them, he too...

fiery and suffused with blood, their tongues a-flicker out of hissing maws" which kill the high priest Laocoön and his sons. Aeneas and his wife Creusa...

de Milo, c. 130 – 100 BC, Greek, the Louvre Laocoön and his Sons, Greek, (Late Hellenistic), c. 160 BC and 20 BC, White marble, Vatican Museum Nara Daibutsu...

famous Classical and Renaissance art works featuring Morton's toe include Boxer at Rest, The Birth of Venus, Laocoön and His Sons and Diana of Versailles...

that Michelangelo was inspired by the famous Greco-Roman group of Laocoön and His Sons, excavated in 1506 in Rome, an event at which Michelangelo is believed...

grandeur, always bearing in mind the discovery of the classical Laocoön and His Sons, discovered in 1506. While the artists of the Quattrocento created...

was: One of the three Rhodian sculptors who created the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons and signed the Sperlonga sculptures Polydora Scholia on Ovid, Ibis...

(mid-2nd century BC), the Dying Gaul (about 230 BC), and the monumental group Laocoön and His Sons (late 1st century BC). All these statues depict Classical...

and that, I confess, is its weak side; or it may also be treated aesthetically, as the Germans call it—that is, in relation to good taste. In his 1991...

Colosseum, the Pantheon, Laocoön and His Sons, the Farnese Hercules, the Apollo Belvedere and the Borghese Gladiator. Both Panini and Stainville are featured:...

of Genesis 1:21 and the "great serpent" of Amos 9:3. In the Aeneid, a pair of sea serpents killed Laocoön and his sons when Laocoön argued against bringing...

There are obvious parallels with the classical sculpture of Laocoön and His Sons, and the work also owes a debt to works of Michelangelo. The male,...

Sutar's son, Anil Sutar explains that, "the expression, posture and pose justify the dignity, confidence, iron will as well as kindness that his personality...

weighs about 1,300 kg (2,900 lb) and probably depicts the face of the sea titan god Oceanus. The eyes, nostrils and mouth are open. Historians are not...

Attributed by Pliny the Elder to Agesander, Athanodoros and Polydorus: Laocoön and His Sons. Copy after an Hellenistic original from ca. 200 BC. Vatican...

considered a masterpiece of 18th-century sculpture and launched Sanmartino's career. Seeking to further develop his reconstruction of the Cappella Sansevero, the...

of Samothrace (c. 2nd century BCE) Terracotta Army (246–210 BCE) Laocoön and His Sons (c. 200 BCE-70 CE) Venus de Milo (130–100 BCE) Equestrian Statue...

works, if not the apex, of Hellenistic art.[citation needed] The Laocoön and His Sons in the Vatican Museums, one of only a very few sculptures which are...

Relics of HMS Bounty off Pitcairn Island by Luis Marden. Right arm of Laocoön and his Sons. Sperlonga sculptures. Ban Chiang. Maine penny. Society for Medieval...

Cermalus, Caelius, and Cispius. These are sometimes confused with the traditional seven hills. Tradition holds that Romulus and Remus founded the original...