Laocoön and His Sons
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
early 1st century
One of the major discoveries of the Italian Renaissance, this sculptural grouping was found in Rome in 1506 in the ruins of Titus' palace. It depicts an event in Vergil's Aeneid (Book 2). The Trojan priest Laocoön was strangled by sea snakes, sent by the gods who favored the Greeks, while he was sacrificing at the altar of Neptune. Because Laocoön had tried to warn the Trojan citizens of the danger of bringing in the wooden horse, he incurred the wrath of the gods.
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The furrowed brow and open-mouthed pain would be copied by Bernini and Caravaggio in the seventeenth century.
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