FTP, what is this ancient marble group representing a Trojan priest and his two sons being crushed to death by a snake?
Titian satirized this artwork by creating a woodcut in which all of the figures were replaced by monkeys. A major renovation was undertaken in the 1950s in which the right arm was returned to the titular figure and placed in its correct position behind his head. The subject of a celebrated rediscovery in a Roman vineyard in 1506, most of the information about it comes from Pliny the Elder, who states that in his time it stood in the palace of the emperor Titus, and claims that it was made by Hagesander, Polydorus, and Athenodourus of Rhodes. FTP, what is this ancient marble group representing a Trojan priest and his two sons being crushed to death by a snake?
Titian satirized this artwork by creating a woodcut in which all of the figures were replaced by monkeys.
Laocoon