An Artist that admire

Well I admire a lot of artists from different historic periods, from Giotto to Monet and Hopper. This time Im going to write about the sculptors from the ancient time who created the marble of Lacoon and his sons.

This artwork it's attributed by Pliny the Elder to the Rodhian sculptors Athenodoros, Agesander and Polydorus and it's depict the death of the trojan priest Lacoon being eaten alive by a giant snake, the other two carachters beside him are his two sons.
It's believed that the marble was created arounde the year 50 B.C in Rhodes an island situated at the mediterranean sea that during that time was part of the Hellenestic Confederation.
The artowk shows us in a very dramatic way the last minutes of Lacoon who suffers the torture and suffocation made by the giant snake sent by the goddes Athena who was furious because the trojan priest didn't wanted to receive the gift from the greek army that was attacking troy, this gift was the famous Horse of Troy.