Laocoön And His Sons Analysis

In this formal analysis essay, The analyzation of Laocoön and His Sons will be made. A sculpture created in the first century by the artists Hagesandros, Polydoros and Anthenodoros which is currently located in the Vatican. This sculpture is based on Greek mythology, as Laocoön was a priest that warned the Trojans not to bring the wooden horse inside the walls. The Greeks Gods who supported the Greeks saw his actions and punish him by sending serpents to kill him and his sons. This essay will be focusing about the details shown in the sculpture like valance, composition, the type of style that the sculpture is and why the artists decided to use the material that they did.
The sculpture shows how the story unfolds in a realistic but idealistic tone. It contains a wide variety of details from the great saphenous veins in the inner thigh of Laocoön to facial expressions that leave onlookers gaping. Almost every single muscle in the body of Laocoön is perfectly tone, with huge triceps and biceps and a well-built torso.Everything is anatomically correct. Laocoön was a priest, not a bodybuilder, which leads us to believe that that was not his real body but an idealization of what it should have been. but the …show more content…
Laocoön’s body language expresses defeat, agony and fear at his weakest state. Maybe the artists decided to make it that way to drag the attention to him, as he has the most details out of everyone and is the biggest in the sculpture, on top of that he is also place in the center, where normally the most important thing goes. Laocoön is also the person with the most opened body, and if the ruler of third is used it can be seen that his body takes two thirds of the sculpture. This ruler is so effective because it lets the human eye view something in a more natural way, and prioritizes a specific area without disturbing the overall