2019 The Serpent of Laocoön

2019 The Serpent of Laocoön

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ Laocoön and His Sons ✧
Laocoön and His Sons is an ancient sculpture which was excavated in Rome, Italy, in 1506. It depicts the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents. The figures in the statue are nearly life-sized, with the entire group measuring just over 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in heig...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_and_His_Sons
𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬
✧ Laocoön ✧
Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by El Greco, a Greek painter of the Spanish Renaissance. The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths of Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon, and his two sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus. Laocoön and his sons were strangled by sea serpent...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_(El_Greco)
"Two Italian #ClimateChange activists who glued themselves to the base of [the #Laocoon statue] of the #Vatican Museum must pay almost 30,000 euros ($32,000) in damages and costs, a Vatican criminal court ruled on Monday.
The sculpture depicts a priest from Troy who tried to warn fellow citizens against taking in the Greeks' wooden horse.
The marble plinth was added to the Laocoon in the 19th century."