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Laocoön and His Sons
sculpture in the Museo Pio-Clementino
Details
- Instance of
- sculpture, group of sculptures
- Inception
- 42 BCE, 150 BCE, 1st century BCE
- Location
- Pio-Clementino museum
- Place of birth
- Italy
- Country
- Vatican City
- Creator
- Agesander of Rhodes, Athanadoros, Polydoros
- Based on
- Aeneid
- Derivative works
- Laocoon Group, Laocoon and his sons
- Movement
- Hellenistic sculpture
- Genre
- nude, group of sculptures
- Main subject
- Laocoön
- Material
- marble
- Field of work
- ancient Greek sculpture, figurative art, Greek mythology, Hellenistic period
- collection
- Pio-Clementino museum
- copyright status
- public domain
- country of origin
- Italy
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, The Encyclopedia Americana
- height
- 2.42 m, 184 cm
- inventory number
- MV.1059.0.0
- location of discovery
- Rome, Oppian Hill
- time period
- Ancient Greece, culture of ancient Rome
- title
- Laocoön and His Sons (Laocoön)
- width
- 160 cm
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