Laocoon and His Sons
Laocoon and His Sons
3D
Published 2017-12-15T19:56:11+00:00
Digitised with an Artec Eva.
An icon of Hellenistic art, the figurative Greek sculpture known as the Laocoon Group, or Laocoon and His Sons, is a monumental statue which is on display at the Museo Pio Clementino, in the Vatican Museums, Rome. It is a marble copy of a bronze sculpture, which - according to the Roman writer Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE) - depicted the Trojan priest Laocoon and his two sons Antiphas and Thymbraeus being killed by giant snakes, as described by the Roman poet Virgil (70 BCE - 19 CE) in his epic poem the Aeneid. The statue, which was seen and revered by Pliny the Elder in the palace of Titus Flavius Vespasianus (39-81 CE), the future Roman Emperor Titus (ruled 79-81), was attributed by Pliny to three sculptors from the Greek island of Rhodes: Hagesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus. This attribution coincides with an inscription on a fragment from other similar marbles discovered separately from the Laocoon itself. Despite persistent uncertainty as to its date and details of its original provenance, Laocoon and His Sons is considered to be one of the greatest works of Greek sculpture of the Hellenistic Period.
Cast from the original (ORIG1563) housed at the Museo Pio Clementino. Restorations have been made to Laocoon's extended arm, a matter of debate amongst academics. Acquired in 1898.
| Date published | 15/12/2017 |
| Complessità | Medium |
| Title | Laocoon and His Sons |
| Date | 1st century BC |
| Dimension | 242 x 162.5 x 103 cm (gross) |
| Accession | KAS385 |
| Medium | Plaster |
| Credit | Cast from original (ORIG1563) from the Museo Pio Clementino |
| Record | http://collection.smk.dk/#/detail/KAS385 |
| Artist | Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus |
| Place | SMK - Statens Museum for Kunst |
Definitely a nice print, quite difficult to get rid of all the support but totally worth it!