Laocoön and His Sons

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Sculpture · c. 40 BC · Rome · Europe

Unearthed in 1506 before Michelangelo — the Renaissance model of agony and strain

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Author: Agesander, Athenodoros and Polydorus of Rhodes
Style: Hellenistic art — Greek form after Alexander: passion, motion and theatrical scale from the Nile to the Indus
Century: 1st century BC

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