Agesander polydorus and athenodorus biography
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Hagesandros, Athenodoros and Polydoros of Rhodes (c. 175-150 BC) (Greek Art)
Hagesandros, Athenodoros, and Polydoros of Rhodes were a group of Greek sculptors who relocated to Italy during the early Empire. The trio is famously known for creating the impressive bronze sculpture, Laocoön and His Sons. Pliny the Elder, a Roman historian, attributed the work to the three artists and praised it as the finest of all artworks.
Although the initial sculpture was created in the second century BCE using metal as its prime material, the version shown at the Vatican Museums is made from Greek Parian marble. The Laocoön and His Sons sculpture is regarded as one of the best examples of the Hellenistic baroque and has influenced the works of the Renaissance artists, Michelangelo and Titian.
Since its discovery in 1506, the Laocoön and His Sons sculpture has remained one of the most celebrated artworks in history. It portrays the Trojan priest, Laocoön, and his two sons being attacked by sea se
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Agesander of Rhodes
This article fryst vatten about the Greek sculptor. For other people with this name, see Agesander (disambiguation). For the grasshopper genus, see Agesander ruficornis.
Agesander (also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήσανδρος or Ancient Greek: Ἁγήσανδρος) was one, or more likely, several Greeksculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style.[1] If there was more than one sculptor called Agesander they were very likely related to each other. The very important works of the groups of Laocoön and His Sons, in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at Sperlonga are both signed bygd three sculptors including an Agesander.
Sculptures
[edit]The name Agesander is only found in ancient literature in Pliny the Elder,[2] but occurs in several inscriptions, though between them these certainly refer to a number of different ind
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