Plaster Copy of the Laocoön Group (Illustration)

Illustration

by Allard Pierson Museum
published on 01 February 2020

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Plaster Copy of the Laocoön Group — Plaster copy of the Laocoön group. Allard Pierson, University of Amsterdam, (APM 16.097). The sculpture was shown in this way for four centuries. Laocoön's outstretched arm, the arm of the younger son and parts of the snake are early-modern restorations.

Based on a Roman copy of a Hellenistic original made c. 200 BCE.

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Original image by Allard Pierson Museum. Uploaded by Cindy Meijer, published on 01 February 2020 under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike. This license lets others remix, tweak, and build upon this content non-commercially, as long as they credit the author and license their new creations under the identical terms. Please note that content linked from this page may have different licensing terms.

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Museum, A. P. (2020, February 01). Plaster Copy of the Laocoön Group. Ancient History Encyclopedia. Retrieved from https://www.ancient.eu/image/11787/

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Plaster Copy of the Laocoön Group