Il mio primo viaggio a Roma fu durante il ponte dell'Epifania 2011, furono quattro giorni tra mercatini, monumenti e antichi resti della civiltà romanica, madre della nostra civiltà. Da allora ho avuto modo di visitare la capitale diverse volte e, ogni volta, incremento le mie fotografie di Roma https://www.viaggiaescopri.it/fotografie-di-roma/?utm_source=tumblr&utm_medium=Tumblr&utm_campaign=Tumblr
"the prototypical icon of human agony" in Western art.
Laocoön and His Sons / Laocoön Group, most likely dating to the 1st c. B.C. or1st c. C.E., made of six blocks of Greek Parian marble max H: 2 m (6 ft 7 in). Today in the Octagonal Court / Cortile delle Statue, Vatican.
The "wrong" and full version of it from a 1795 "Royal Academicians in General Assembly" painting by Henry Singleton
Excavated damaged in 1506 and has undergone speculative interventions to show the whole work (all missing parts creatively restored). Since 1980s the group is rid of Jacopo Sansovino's (1st) and Michelangelo's apprentice Giovanni Antonio Montorsoli's extencive restorations, after Ludwig Pollak discovered a missing part of the much debated Right arm, in 1906 (which confirmed Michelangelo's rejected initial view).
Pliny attributed the work (still in Emperor Titus' palace then) to three Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes: Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, but he did not mention date or patron. An enigmatic Hellenistic "baroque" masterpiece [a unique surviving instant of huge visual impact, without any intermediate, possibly offensive restoration. It seems almost Doric in comparison with Gian Lorenzo Bernini's baroque view]
Paradox: Laocoon seems convinced by Cassandra's already delivered but never-to-be-believed Trojan Horse accurate prophecy [?]
Il Barocco nella Basilica di San Pietro è un trionfo di travertino e marmo, giochi di ombre e luci, pietre policrome, bronzo e oro. La Basilica più grande e più bella del mondo, dopo la Controriforma cattolica che restituì al papato romano la centralità del potere religioso, politico e diplomatico di tutta Europa, aumentò considerevolmente la sua magnificenza. Questo libro dal titolo "Vaticano Barocco" ci porta alla scoperta delle opere d'arte e architettoniche presenti nella Basilica di San Pietro e nei Palazzo Apostolici che sono state create dopo la Controriforma. Ve ne parlo nell'ultimo post: link in bio e nelle stories . . . . https://michelangelobuonarrotietornato.com/2023/01/19/vaticano-barocco-il-libro/ . . . . https://amzn.to/3QP0mbM . . . . #michelaangelobuonarrotietornato #michelangelobuonarroti #michelangelo #antoniettabandelloni #libri #leggere #libridaleggere #arte #bellezza #barocco #museivaticani #bernini #masterpiece #reding #artbook #artblogger #libriimperdibili (presso Seravezza, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CnmLYaGIDQa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Laocoön & Sons in Vaticano 🇻🇦🐎🇻🇦#vatican #vaticano #museivaticani #artmuseum #roma #rome #italia #italy #interiordesign #greekmythology #laocoön #trojanwar #vergil #aeneid #sculptures #marble #artblogger #travelblogger #mindyyuan #動物群像 #勞孔群像 #木馬屠城 Possibly built circa B.C.E. 20-160 by Agesander, Athenodoros & Polydorus from Rhodes, the tragedy of Laocoön & Sons was described in Vergil’s Aeneis (at Vatican Museums) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ck9DeNoNIfm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
HEAD of Female Acrolith:
"Marble [head], Copper and calcedony [eyes]"
470-260 BC.
Found in Magna Grecia | Unknown provenance [?]
[Loan from] Museo Gregoriano Profano, Musei Vaticani | MV
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Exhibited [18|06|23] in Baths of Diocletian, Museo Nazionale Romano
"The Instant and Eternity, Between us and the ancients" exhibition
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