William Blake's last engraving was inspired by this work, which he himself suggested had been inspired by a statue of God, Satan, and Adam from the Temple of Solomon.
William Blake's last engraving was inspired by this work, which he himself suggested had been inspired by a statue of God, Satan, and Adam from the Temple of Solomon. This statue* also provided inspiration for French neoclassicism when it was placed in the Louvre by Napoleon and for Michelangelo, who used several variants of the figures' poses in his Rebellious Slave and Battle of Cascina. FTP, what is this famous sculpture credited to Agesander and dated to the first century B.C.E., which shows the title figures being strangled and bitten by serpents sent by Poseidon?
William Blake's last engraving was inspired by this work, which he himself suggested had been inspired by a statue of God, Satan, and Adam from the Temple of Solomon.
Laocoön and His Sons or The Laocoön Group