Laocoön and his Sons, early first century C.E.

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Laocoön and his Sons, early first century C.E.발음듣기

(music) ("In The Sky With Diamonds" by Scalding Lucy) Male: We're standing in an alcove of a lovely courtyard in the Vatican and we're looking at Laocoon.발음듣기

This man, Laocoon was a Trojan priest and he knew that the gift that had arrived outside of the gates of the City of Troy from the Greeks, their enemies, was in fact a trick and he tried to warn the city.발음듣기

Female: The gift was a wooden horse filled with Greek soldiers.발음듣기

Male: A [goddess] who was a protector of the Greeks didn't like this, and to punish him, sent serpents to strangle him and his sons.발음듣기

So it's interesting, when this sculpture was unearthed in the 16th century, it was immediately hailed because we thought it linked up with literature that we have from the ancient world, from ancient Rome, from Pliny.발음듣기

Female: Pliny, the ancient Roman historian wrote that he had seen a sculpture of this subject in the Emperor's palace.발음듣기

Male: Into the 18th century, an important early connoisseur or historian, a man named Winklemann was absolutely convinced that this dated from the 4th century B.C.E.발음듣기

Female: From the Classical period.발음듣기

Male: That's right.발음듣기

It lived up to every desire that antiquarians had for a sculpture that could really be located.발음듣기

Female: So then the problems emerge.발음듣기

One problem is that the sculptors that Pliny names can be traced to the first 1st century, not to an earlier period.발음듣기

Pliny also says that this was carved out of a single block of marble, which it isn't.발음듣기

Male: Then to further complicate things, we just need to look at the sculpture.발음듣기

This is a sculpture that is full of dynamism.발음듣기

His body is writhing, there's agony, those serpents are muscular.발음듣기

There's a power here and all of that energy we associate not with the Classical period in ancient Greece, but instead with the Hellenistic, that is with the 3rd or the 2nd century.발음듣기

Female: In fact, this is very similar in style to the figures that we see on the Altar of Pergamon in the way that the figures move into our space and interact with us.발음듣기

Male: Even the sense of agony, the sense of tragedy that is so dramatic, all the theatricality here, all the emphasis on the diagonal, on the serpentine, all of these things, we see on the great Altar of Zeus at Pergamon and really it fixes this style in the Hellenistic.발음듣기

Female: The word you used was "serpentine" and I think that that's a great word to think about the sculpture and the figures of the Renaissance that were inspired by it. The figure twists in space.발음듣기

His legs move to his left.발음듣기

His torso moves to his right.발음듣기

His head moves back toward the left.발음듣기

It's a figure that twists on itself and is so expressive in the body that you can see how it would be so important for Michelangelo.발음듣기

Male: As with so many ancient sculptures, especially complicated ones like this, it was found in fragments and although it is organized and the limbs are in the position we think they belong, we could be wrong. Especially concerning Laocoon's right arm.발음듣기

Female: This has been reconstructed a number of different ways, but the way that we have it now with his arm moving back behind him is the one that our historians agree on now.발음듣기

But one of the things that people have noticed about this sculpture is the terrible pain, agony expressed by the figures, but the simultaneous sense of beauty that we contemplate in the figure's body.발음듣기

Male: So that tension is a result of the fact that we're enjoying the beauty of this sculpture even as the sculpture is depicting great pain, great tragedy, real agony.발음듣기

(music) ("In The Sky With Diamonds" by Scalding Lucy)발음듣기

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