“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 ...

and the dramatic sight of pits filled with writhing snakes — a scene that conjures images of Laocoön's legendary struggle with serpents. However, the symbolism of snakes is multifaceted ...

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 ...

the Vatican Museums’ writhing Laocoön; the Capitoline Museums’ Dying Gaul, taking his last breath; and Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Rape of Proserpina, with those indelible fingerprints left on ...

They include the rarely-seen trial frontispiece of his prophetic book Jerusalem and his large drawing Free Version of the Laocoön. Another image on display is his drawing of the Laocoön - a ...

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 ...

The court found that two members of Ultima Generazione (Last Generation), Guido Viero and Ester Goffi, damaged the base of the Gruppo del Laocoonte (Laocoön Group) statute inside the Vatican Museum, ...

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 ...

The incident occurred last August, when activists Guido Viero, 61, and Ester Goffi, 26, entered the Vatican Museums and glued their hands to the base of the famed “Laocoön and Sons” statue ...