LAOCOÖN

lāŏkˈōŏn, in Greek mythology, priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans not to touch the wooden horse made by the Greeks during the Trojan War. While he and his two sons were sacrificing to Poseidon at the seashore, two serpents came from the water and crushed them. The Trojans interpreted this event as a sign of the gods' disapproval of Laocoön's prophecy, and they brought the wooden horse into the city. Subsequent events vindicated Laocoön's judgment, however, since the horse was filled with Greeks, who waited until night and then sacked Troy. A magnificent Greek statue by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus, unearthed in Rome in 1508 and now in the Vatican, shows Laocoön and his sons in their death struggle. This Hellenistic sculpture had an important influence on the artists of the Renaissance.

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books on: LaocoOn  - 1117 results

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The History of Art History
Book by Udo Kultermann; Abaris Books, 1993
Subjects: Art Historians, Art--Historiography
IV THE LAOCOON DEBATE THE ISSUE Within the spirit of...was the ancient sculpture known as the Laocoon , fragments of which were discovered on...apparently original arrangement. The story of Laocoon and his sons survives in two sources from...
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Early Christian Families in Context: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Book by David L. Balch, Carolyn Osiek; W.B. Eerdmans, 2003
Subjects: Family--Religious Aspects--Christianity--History--Congresses, Family--Rome--Congresses, Rome--Social Life And Customs--Congresses
...in the Louvre and probably belong to a Laocoon group. Since this paper concerns Paul...intriguing that there are fragments of the Laocoon group from his birthplace. Settiss addi...illustrations generally represent Cassandra and Laocoon in the context of the fall of Troy, as...
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Words and the Poet: Characteristic Techniques of Style in Vergil's Aeneid
Book by R. O. A. M. Lyne; Oxford University, 1998
Subjects: Aeneas (Legendary Character) In Literature, Epic Poetry, Latin--History And Criticism, Latin Language--Style, Rome (Italy)--In Literature, Virgil--Aeneis
...introduce it, and their belief that Laocoon was wrong and indeed impious to oppose...198 . At 2.199 we are returned to Laocoon, and what then happens clinches the fatal decision. We find Laocoon sacrificing a bull at an altar -- he...
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Reading the Waste Land: Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation
Book by Jewel Spears Brooker, Joseph Bentley; University of Massachusetts Press, 1990
Subjects: Modernism (Literature)
...literary critic Gotthold Ephraim Lessing in Laocoon 1766 , a work with the subtitle The Limits...Painting and Poetry . 19 The context for Laocoon is the Renaissance practice of comparing...is poetry" . The immediate occasion of Laocoon was Lessings irritation with a comparison...
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Mannerism: The European Style of the Sixteenth Century
Book by Franzsepp Weurtenberger, Michael Heron; Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963
Subjects: Art, European, Mannerism (Art)
The Ape Laocoon. Woodcut by TITIAN Metamorphoses enjoyed...scarcely make enough direct copies of the Laocoon either. One executed by Baccio Bandinelli...the Vatican. In Tintorettos studio the Laocoon group stood next to the reproductions...
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"Toms Laocoon": A Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Journal article by John Haydn Baker; Victorian Poetry, Vol. 40, 2002
Subjects: Beddoes, Thomas Lovell--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Death--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Poetry--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
"Toms Laocoon": a newly discovered poem by Thomas...Tom has sent me some lines on the Laocoon which he had believed was to have been...that the subject for 1821 would be the Laocoon rather than Paestum. Laocoon was a Trojan...
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Journal article by Morton D. Paley; Vol. 41, 2002
Subjects: Authors, English--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Blake, William--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Engraving--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Good and evil--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Literature--Themes, motives
...purpose of drawing from a cast of the Laocoon group, in preparation for an engraving...produced at least two drawings of the Laocoon, and then an engraving that was, with...work evidently put him in mind of the Laocoon as a possible subject for one or more...
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The Good Ol' Boy System: Alive and Well at Laocoön Aeronautics Corporation
Journal article by Jennifer D. Oyler, Mildred Golden Pryor, Stephanie S. Pane Haden; Journal of the International Academy for Case Studies, Vol. 17, 2011
Subjects: Defense industry, Female employees, Sexual harassment, United States
...Good Ol Boy System: Alive and Well at Laocoon Aeronautics Corporation by Jennifer D...months. Although Averil had worked for Laocoon Aeronautics Corporation for almost 12...thought about her meteoric rise to fame at Laocoon Aeronautics Corporation. Averil had graduated...
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Margaret Fuller's First Conversation Series: A Discovery in the Archives
Journal article by Amanda Ritchie; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 18, 2001
Subjects: Authorship--Analysis, Educators--Practice, Fuller, Margaret--Works, Manuscripts--Analysis, Women authors--Works
...his stream. I then read a part of the Laocoon, showing what a work of art was in his...first issue, and Goethes essay on the Laocoon statue in Rome. Fullers Reading Journal O mentions both the introduction and the Laocoon essay, thereby indicating that she must...
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Integritas and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Incomplete Artworks
Journal article by Daniel B. Gallagher; PSYART, 2006
...Artworks by Daniel B. Gallagher 1. The Laocoon and incompleteness While contemplating the Laocoon sculpture group in the Vatican Museums one...mother have appreciated them any less? The Laocoon is undoubtedly the cause celebre of the rediscovery...
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Towards a Funner Laocoon
Magazine article by Bruce Hainley; Artforum International, Vol. 38, Summer 2000
Subjects: Craft, Liz--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Holloway, Evan--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Meadows, Jason--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculptors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculpture--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
TOWARDS A FUNNER LAOCOON. by BRUCE HAINLEY WHY WOULD ANYONE WANT TO MAKE A SCULPTURE? There are certainly more immediate (and less bulky) ways to represent...
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Out of the Past: Lucy R. Lippard Talks about Eva Hesse with Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson
Magazine article by Lucy R. Lippard; Artforum International, Vol. 46, February 2008
Subjects: Artists--Criticism and interpretation, Artists--Works, Hesse, Eva--Criticism and interpretation, Hesse, Eva--Works
...written about her. Actually, I used the Laocoon, the actual ancient sculpture, in reference...kind of interest in that kind of realm Laocoon, 1966. NH: I remember her saying to...Ingeminate and Ishtar, of Hang Up and Laocoon, both 1966, a Hesse who had covered...
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The Modernism of El Greco
Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 22, November 2003
Subjects: Art--Criticism, interpretation, etc., El Greco
...of El Grecos late, eerie masterpiece Laocoon (early 1610S, National Gallery of Art...the Fifth Seal and the National Gallerys Laocoon, allowing us to eavesdrop on the dialogue...comparisons.) The agitated nudes in both Laocoon and The Opening of the Fifth Seal, with...
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!Yo Picasso!
Magazine article by Jonathan Brown, El Greco; Artforum International, Vol. 39, May 2001
Subjects: Greco, El--Exhibitions, Painters--Exhibitions, Picasso, Pablo--Attitudes
...interpretation of the Italian aesthetic as the monumental Laocoon, ca. 1610. Laocoon is a perfect demonstration of how El Greco, from...Michelangelos Medici tombs. In the sculpture, Laocoon and his sons share a common fate as the serpent...
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Roman Holiday
Magazine article by Karen Wilkin; New Criterion, Vol. 18, May 2000
Subjects: Art, Roman--18th century, Art--18th century, Rome, Italy--18th century
...something to say on the subject. The much-admired figure group, Laocoon, he pointed out, may have had "more expression in the countenance...being strangled by giant snakes--but the "passion" that Laocoon alludes to "is still more strongly expressed by the writhing...
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TEN OF THE GREATEST; Sculptures
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), August 29, 2010
...more readily share their emotions. 7 LAOCOON 1ST CENTURY AD A different aspect of realism, in tragic mode, is evident in Laocoon, a Trojan priest. In punishment for...god Poseidon sent two serpents to crush Laocoon and his sons. Again we do not know who...
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BEAUTIFUL BRONZES; There Was a Time When No Mantelpiece Was Complete without Small Sculptures in Imitation of Ancient Rome. Now We Have a Chance to Rediscover a Great but Forgotten Art; EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 27, 2010
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Exhibitions, Art--Exhibitions
...excavated. In January 1506 Michelangelo watched the retrieval of Laocoon and his sons overwhelmed by constricting serpents; within...There are the usual essentials of a bronze collection -- a Laocoon, of course, a pair of vases almost a metre tall, fussily...
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GOLDEN WONDERS; Thanks to the Courage of a Handful of Afghan Officials at the National Museum in Kabul, a Hoard of Treasures Was Saved from Taliban Destruction and Is Now on Show in London, Bringing Cultural Clues of Life before Political Borders Were Drawn EXHIBITION OF THE WEEK
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 10, 2011
Subjects: British Museum, Opium trade
...Turkey suggests that no one will ever find an Apollo Belvedere there, so, I suspect, will nothing as astonishing as the Laocoon be dug from the soil of Afghanistan. What every schoolboy did not, however, know in our perhaps "1066 and all that" approach...
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Complete Works of Master Stubbs
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 2, 2007
Subjects: Painters, Painters (Artists)
...Rome in 1754, at 30, only the antique motif of a lion attacking ahorse caught his attention and lodged in his imaginationno Laocoon, no Sistine Ceiling, nothing by Raphael. Back in England, he took the horse to pieces, inured by boyhood experience tothe...
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Tolkien Treasures Cause a Stir at Sales; ANTIQUES & COLLECTING A Rare Tolkien Book and a Photograph of the Author Are Creating a Fenzy of Interest
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 23, 2008
Subjects: The Hobbit (Novel)
...pounds 600, shows Tolkien in the Oxford Botanical Gardens leaning against his favourite tree, a black pine that he had named Laocoon. The photograph was a gift to Elaine Griffiths from Tolkiens daughter, who wrote on the back "For Elaine with love from...


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encyclopedia articles on: LaocoOn  - 9 results

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LaocoÖn
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
LAOCOON laok oon, in Greek mythology, priest of Apollo who warned the Trojans...and Polydorus, unearthed in Rome in 1508 and now in the Vatican, shows Laocoon and his sons in their death struggle. This Hellenistic sculpture had an...
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Belvedere
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...permanent theater, a museum building, and a statue court. The Laocoon, discovered in 1506, was placed in the statue court; in...Sangallo. Now a museum, the Belvedere still contains the Laocoon and the Apollo as well as other rare works of classical antiquity...
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Greco, El
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Metropolitan Mus.); the Pentecost (Prado); a portrait of Hortensio Felix Paravicino (Mus. of Fine Arts, Boston); and the Laocoon (National Gall. of Art, Washington, D.C.). In his own day his admirers seem to have been intellectuals, such as Fulvio...
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Agesander
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
AGESANDER aj san d r: see Laocoon . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Greek Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...their prototypes, appear frequently along with vigorous group compositions closely related to the Pergamene school (e.g., Laocoon and His Sons, Vatican). Greek and Roman artists produced these copies of former masterpieces for private patrons or the...
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