“That is the Laocoön,” Sangallo gasped, “which Pliny mentions.” When the six-foot-tall marble statue was pulled out of the ground, it was indeed impressive—towering, largely ...

"Laocoön," a 2,000-year-old masterpiece unearthed in 16th-century Rome, was so realistic that the famed Renaissance artist was suspected of forging it. Laocoön And His Sons“Laocoön And His ...

It is considered a symbol of masculinity: the penis. As Michelangelo's David makes headlines as "pornographic," a look at how tiny genitals were once perceived as a sign of merit. In the Vatican ...

Climate activists glued themselves to the base of the ancient Roman sculpture “Laocoön and His Sons,” housed at the Vatican Museums (courtesy Ultima Generazione via Twitter) This morning ...

Four and a half centuries have passed since Roman archaeologists uncovered the famed Laocoön sculpture, a huge, powerful work of marble showing the death of a Trojan priest and his two sons (who ...

When they began winding a giant flabby pink tube around themselves it became clear that they were doing something like a rough, living-sculpture approximation of the Laocoön. I have a pet peeve ...

Goethe University’s Sculpture Hall has received a prominent addition: a true-to-original copy of the monumental statue of Laocoön and his sons recently became part of the Collection of ...

Weighty addition: The true-to-original, approx. 260 kg cast of Laocoön and His Sons, pictured after its arrival at Goethe University’s Sculpture Hall. Pictured here are artist Hans Effenberger ...

Viero and Goffi superglued their hands to the marble base holding Laocoön and His Sons, an ancient marble sculpture on display in the Vatican Museums, on the morning of Aug. 18, 2022. Laocoön ...