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OpenStudy (anonymous):

What makes Laocoon and His Sons sculpture so Hellenistic?

OpenStudy (gentorr):

lets see

OpenStudy (gentorr):

it has been one of the most famous ancient sculptures ever since it was excavated in Rome in 1506 and placed on public display in the Vatican, where it remains. Exceptionally, it is very likely to be the same object as a statue praised in the highest terms by the main Roman writer on art, Pliny the Elder.(ect.) The figures are near life-size and the group is a little over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height, showing the Trojan priest Laocoön and his sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus being attacked by sea serpents.

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