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  • An Ancient Masterpiece or a Master's Forgery? (Did by Michelangelo Sculpt the Laocoön?)

    04/19/2005 12:08:30 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 56 replies · 1,776+ views
    New York Times ^ | April 18, 2005 | KATHRYN SHATTUCK
    A scholar has suggested that "Laocoön," a fabled sculpture whose unearthing in 1506 has deeply influenced thinking about the ancient Greeks and the nature of the visual arts, may well be a Renaissance forgery - possibly by Michelangelo himself. Her contention has stirred some excitement and considerable exasperation among art historians in the Classical and Renaissance fields. Many other challenges to accepted attributions have faded quickly into oblivion. The scholar advancing the theory, Lynn Catterson, a summer lecturer in art history at Columbia University, presented her argument in a talk at the university's Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America...
  • Laocoön and His Son

    08/28/2004 4:07:50 PM PDT · by SunkenCiv · 6 replies · 821+ views
    Vatican Museums ^ | circa 2000 | Mary Ann Sullivan
    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.