Title

Laocoon group, from Esquiline Hill, Rome, c30 BC. Artist: Unknown.

Caption

Laocoon group, from Esquiline Hill, Rome, c30 BC. Laokoon naked with full beard and long hair sits on a square altar partly covered by his mantle, trying to free himself from two snakes. On either side is a naked boy (Laocoon?s sons) with short hair likewise engaged. Late Hellenistic. Dimensions: height x width: 238 x 165 cm//Oxford, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Date

30th century BC

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology

Reference

HRM19E75_091

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

66,4Mb (1,2Mb) / 13,8in x 18,7in / 4134 x 5616 (300dpi)

Keywords

Italy Italian people male man men family religious father arts country Rome religion naked nude fatherhood statue white sculpture art guy museum color colour tablet location century son image studio shot priest concept mythology dad suffering nudity nakedness mythical creature Vatican Museum Chronicle Hellenistic black background 1st century BC male likeness mythical beast sea monster object white colour Unknown marble sea serpent human likeness Antiphantes Thymbraeus Laocoon Ashmolean Museum Parian Chronicle Parian Marble Esquiline Hill Laocoon Group marble object