This is a really good and informative video about an amazing work of sculpture. Despite its age and some obvious chips and missing pieces, Laocoon and His Sons is remarkable preserved. Have you created any videos studying a similar work of art, Ugolino and His Sons which is in NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art? If not, please consider it. You are really good with your commentary on artwork. Thank you
So happy I found your channel via your "An absolutely remarkable thing" video. I really appreciate the well researched and even handed tone and feel of your videos. You were right in that I had no idea about this sculpture before this video, but now I feel that the knowledge of it I gained from this video will help aid my perspective of art, its narratives and nationhood going foward.
This was very interesting. Thank you for making and sharing this. Nothing exists in a vacuum, so I like to contemplate inspiration and interpretations, exactly as you have done.
I grew up with this statue, a huge copy of it was displayed at my local subway station and because of that we studied it extensively in high school. It's so strange to find out that it isn't wildly known and appreciated as I'd always assumed it was. Love that you did a video about it, thank you!
I study german literature and language in Cologne and we are talking about Lessings "Laokoon" in on of my courses at the moment. This was super helpful to understand what point Lessing was trying to make in discussing how poets and painters should show pain to make the reader simpathetic. Lerning the backgrounds of Laokoon is so interesting, since Lessings interpretation adds yet another layer to this discussion from a literatur point of view.
You speak well and thoughts you put forward are relevant and important. Thank you for this video. And by the way, this sculpture is not unknown, virtually every student of arts know it. Problem is that we are a minority :)
As always, an amazing video and apt insights. Thank you. And I might have to hate you (just a little) for living so close to such historical sites. Utah (where I live) doesn’t quite measure up in that regard.
Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus this dude is wrong. Aeneas and the Trojans who fled Troy immigrated to Italy and founded the city called Alba Longa. He had a son who then fathered Romulus and Remus who went on to found Rome. Aeneas isn’t the founder of Rome like this guy said, he’s known as the father of the Roman people so I think he was just confused. Because yea according myth it was his grandsons that founded Rome.
This guy's argument is the typical post-modern one: it's fine to treat historical art as a Rohrshach. No need to find out the intention or context of the creators, since our view, however ignorant, is supreme.
I genuinely don't understand. The entire video is about context. The sculpture doesn't have a know artist, and certainly doesn't have a known intention. So how do you suggest we engage with it in a meaningful way?
@@AmorSciendi Cool beans! Just wanna put in a vote for the next rock star sculptor to examine-would also fit with the times/culture reflection thought as it was, as well you probably know, a tribute to the Gauls. :D
Fascinating stuff. Despite the algorithm, I still made it here to watch. :)
I appreciate it
This is a really good and informative video about an amazing work of sculpture. Despite its age and some obvious chips and missing pieces, Laocoon and His Sons is remarkable preserved. Have you created any videos studying a similar work of art, Ugolino and His Sons which is in NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art? If not, please consider it. You are really good with your commentary on artwork. Thank you
Thanks. Ill look into it
So happy I found your channel via your "An absolutely remarkable thing" video. I really appreciate the well researched and even handed tone and feel of your videos. You were right in that I had no idea about this sculpture before this video, but now I feel that the knowledge of it I gained from this video will help aid my perspective of art, its narratives and nationhood going foward.
This was very interesting. Thank you for making and sharing this. Nothing exists in a vacuum, so I like to contemplate inspiration and interpretations, exactly as you have done.
Thank you. Thought provoking. Interesting and informative as always.
Thanks for this, I'm currently taking an art class and school is especially difficult with COVID. This saved me!
I grew up with this statue, a huge copy of it was displayed at my local subway station and because of that we studied it extensively in high school. It's so strange to find out that it isn't wildly known and appreciated as I'd always assumed it was. Love that you did a video about it, thank you!
so nice.
I study german literature and language in Cologne and we are talking about Lessings "Laokoon" in on of my courses at the moment. This was super helpful to understand what point Lessing was trying to make in discussing how poets and painters should show pain to make the reader simpathetic.
Lerning the backgrounds of Laokoon is so interesting, since Lessings interpretation adds yet another layer to this discussion from a literatur point of view.
Thanks, now I know how to pronounce Laocoon. This will help me appear smarter in front of my friends and colleagues.
Every day is a school day
Really good video
You speak well and thoughts you put forward are relevant and important. Thank you for this video. And by the way, this sculpture is not unknown, virtually every student of arts know it. Problem is that we are a minority :)
The son on the right was added by the romans, the original greek sculptor only had laocoon and his son on the left
We had IT in School Last Year, IT was very interesting!
As always, an amazing video and apt insights. Thank you. And I might have to hate you (just a little) for living so close to such historical sites. Utah (where I live) doesn’t quite measure up in that regard.
Very interesting!
o_O I thought you were a New Yorker...
Does my long island accent betray me? I am a New Yorker, living in Izmir.
@@AmorSciendi no, you made a video about a train station in New York, welcome in Europe! :)
Thanks!
this isnt true is it like snakes didnt actually come out of the water and hurt them right????? {im dumb}
1:20 I thought Rome was founded by Romulus who killed his brother and was supposedly raised by wolves?
Brett Carroll Aeneas was the ancestor of Romulus and Remus
Rome was founded by Romulus and Remus this dude is wrong. Aeneas and the Trojans who fled Troy immigrated to Italy and founded the city called Alba Longa. He had a son who then fathered Romulus and Remus who went on to found Rome. Aeneas isn’t the founder of Rome like this guy said, he’s known as the father of the Roman people so I think he was just confused. Because yea according myth it was his grandsons that founded Rome.
This guy's argument is the typical post-modern one: it's fine to treat historical art as a Rohrshach. No need to find out the intention or context of the creators, since our view, however ignorant, is supreme.
I genuinely don't understand. The entire video is about context. The sculpture doesn't have a know artist, and certainly doesn't have a known intention. So how do you suggest we engage with it in a meaningful way?
Where was this monument made?
It's unclear. This statue is most likely a copy of one made earlier
Another misinterpretation: Laocoön and His Sons is not a hentai
Bro only thing wrong with this video is the pronunciation holy its insanely wrong
Good video as always-Dying Gaul next?
Arts relationship to faith is next.
@@AmorSciendi Cool beans! Just wanna put in a vote for the next rock star sculptor to examine-would also fit with the times/culture reflection thought as it was, as well you probably know, a tribute to the Gauls. :D