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TitleLaocoön

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureRoman

Creator roleSculptor

Creation date40–30 B.C.

Object typeSculpture

MaterialsMarble

DimensionsH: 242 cm

LocationVatican Museums, Rome

https://catalogo.museivaticani.va/index.php/Detail/objects/MV.1059.0.0?lang=en_US

Accession numberCat. 1059

SubjectsMythology, Classical, in artMale nude in artDeath in art

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II. The Years of Transition: 1940–1950

David Anfam

Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas—Catalogue Raisonné

~“We came face to face with experiences in which we had no inclination to read Goethe, but took up Shakespeare, or the Bible, or Aeschylus, if it was possible to read at all”—Karl Jaspers Karl Jaspers, Unsere Zukunft und Goethe (Zurich, 1948), p. 22.

Author

David Anfam

PublisherNational Gallery of Art

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00213.003

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Chapter subject tags:Mythology, Greek, in artSurrealismModernism (Art)--Classical influencesAbstract expressionsim--United StatesPainting, American--20th century

5. The Capitoline and Vatican Sculpture Galleries: Temples of Art and the Religion of Beauty

William L. Vance

America’s Rome: Volume I—Classical Rome

John Singer Sargent’s Roman sketchbook of 1869 contains—besides a pale gray wash of the Colosseum and a drawing of the white oxen of the Campagna—studies by the sixteen-year-old artist of the Laocoon and the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican ...

Author

William L. Vance

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.182-392

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00010.010

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Chapter subject tags:Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925Painting, American--19th centuryArtists--Travel--Italy--RomeJames, Henry, 1843-1916Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, 1717-1768West, Benjamin, 1738-1820Laocoön (Legendary character)Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892American literature--19th centuryGreenough, Horatio, 1805-1852Sculpture, American--19th centuryRome (Italy)--In literatureSculpture, Roman

4. Hellenistic Art and the Culture of Character

John Onians

Classical Art and the Cultures of Greece and Rome

The notion that it is useful to define a new period of Greek history, the Hellenistic period, with the death of Alexander the Great is a relatively recent one. It owes its acceptance to a general recognition that his conquests drastically changed the circumstances of life, not only for the Greeks, but also for many of their neighbours. From the moment he became king of Macedon at the age of 20 in 336 BC he embarked on a whirlwind career...

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John Onians

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.105-161

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00031.007

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Chapter subject tags:Greece--CivilizationArt and society--GreeceArt, ClassicalAlexander, the Great, 356 B.C.-323 B.C.Mythology, Greek, in artSculpture, GreekMosaics, RomanSculpture, Roman--Greek influences

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