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Three nude males struggle to free themselves from the coils of serpents.
Laocoön and His Sons
Three nude males struggle to free themselves from the coils of serpents.
Three nude males struggle to free themselves from the coils of serpents.
Laocoön and His Sons, Giovanni Lucignani, c. 1884, plaster cast, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia.

Laocoön and His Sons

Datec. 1884
MediumPlaster cast
DimensionsSculpture: 7 × 5 3/16 × 3 7/16 ft. (213.3 × 157.5 × 104.1 cm)
Pedestal: 34 7/8 × 42 × 73 7/8 inches (88.6 × 106.7 × 187.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase.
Object number1883.13
On View
On view
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