Laocoön and his sons newest Ancient Greek Museum Copy 29cm-11.41in Handmade Marble & Cast Alabaster Sculpture Free Shipping - Free Tracking Number

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Dimensions (approximately)
Height: 11.41 Inches (29cm)
Width: 7.08 Inches (18cm)
Weight: 1428gr

Laocoön Ancient Greek, the son of Acoetes, is a figure in Greek and Roman mythology and the Epic Cycle. He was a Trojan priest who was attacked, with his two sons, by giant serpents sent by the gods. The story of Laocoön has been the subject of numerous artists, both in ancient and in more contemporary times. The Trojans disobeyed Laocoon's advice, deceived by Sinon. Enraged, Laocoon threw his spear at the wooden horse. At that time, the god Poseidon, because he supported the Greeks, sent two sea snakes and drowned Laocoon and his sons, Antiphas (or Antiphantes) and Thymbraeus, or rushed against his sons and Laocoon ran to help them and he was killed. Now thinking that the Greeks were gone, the Trojans decided to sacrifice to the god of the sea to destroy their ships. No longer having a priest of Poseidon, they commissioned Laocoon, a priest of another god, to sacrifice to Poseidon.
This added to the disrespect to Apollo, which was mentioned at the beginning of the article. In fact, Laocoon was probably punished by Apollo for other reasons as well. The death of Laocoön was famously depicted in a much-admired marble Laocoön and His Sons, attributed by Pliny the Elder to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, which stands in the Vatican Museums, Rome. Copies have been executed by various artists, notably Baccio Bandinelli. These show the complete sculpture (with conjectural reconstructions of the missing pieces) and can be seen in Rhodes, at the Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, Rome, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, and in front of the Archaeological Museum, Odessa, Ukraine, amongst others. Alexander Calder also designed a stabile which he called Laocoön in 1947 it's part of the Eli and Edyth Broad collection in Los Angeles.

The marble Laocoön provided the central image for Lessing's Laocoön, 1766, an aesthetic polemic directed against Winckelmann and the Comte de Caylus. Daniel Albright reengages the role of the figure of Laocoön in aesthetic thought in his book Untwisting the newest Serpent: Modernism in Literature, Music, and Other Arts.



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