Laocoön (El Greco) - Wikipedia
...Mannerism reached its height with El Greco, as seen in the distorted, contorted figures of Laocoön and his sons and the hyper elegance of the gods on the right....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laoco%C3%B6n_(El_Greco)
Laocoon, c.1610 - El Greco - WikiArt.org
...Although inspired by the recently discovered monumental Hellenistic sculpture Laocoön and His Sons in Rome, Laocoön is a product of Mannerism, an artistic movement originating in Italy during the 16th century that countered the artistic ideals of the Renaissance....
https://www.wikiart.org/en/el-greco/laocoon
Laocoön by El Greco - National Gallery of Art
...During the Trojan War, the priest Laocoön angered the Greek gods, who sent snakes to kill him and his two sons. The legend became popular after a monumental, ancient marble sculpture of Laocoön and his sons was unearthed in Rome in 1506. Laocoön is El Greco?s only known mythological painting....
https://www.nga.gov/artworks/33253-laocoon
Laocoon by El Greco - The History of Art
...The style of ?Laocoon? is influence by Mannerism, a movement that began in Italy in the early sixteenth century during the Protestant Reformation. The uncertainty and turmoil of the period influenced painters to let go of Renaissance concepts of balance and proportion....
https://www.thehistoryofart.org/el-greco/laocoon/
Laocoon by El Greco - LadyKflo
...Laocoon set a precedent for Mannerism and Expressionism in painting. El Greco was ahead of his time. 1610, when he painted this masterpiece sat at the heart of the Spanish Renaissance....
https://ladykflo.com/laocoon-by-el-greco/
Laocoon, 1606-10 by El Greco
...But while the sculpture expresses a community of punishment, El Greco, in painting this subject, wished rather to express the isolation, the individual responsibility, of the three victims. Each of the figures struggles with his destiny in his own isolated way, without regard or pity for the others....
https://www.elgreco.net/laocoon.jsp
Laocoön by El Greco | Obelisk Art History
...The men?s contorted bodies are radically stretched in the Mannerist form, their faces tortured. The Laocoön was El Greco?s only painting of a mythological theme, and its violence and vengeful gods may reference the ravages of the Inquisition, which gripped Spain in the early 1600s....
https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/el-greco/laocoon/
Laocoon - arthistoryreference.com
...Although inspired by the recently discovered monumental Hellenistic sculpture Laocoön and His Sons in Rome, Laocoön is a product of Mannerism, an artistic movement originating in Italy during the 16th century that countered the artistic ideals of the Renaissance....
http://arthistoryreference.com/t145/8114a.htm
Laocoon - El Greco | AllPainters.org
...Artist: El Greco, Style: Mannerism (Late Renaissance), Genre: mythological painting, Themes: Greek-and-Roman-Mythology, Laocoon, Troy...
https://allpainters.org/paintings/laocoon-el-greco.html
El Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos) - Google Arts & Culture
...Utilizing every available means ? writhing line, lurid color, and illogically conceived space ? the artist projected an unrelieved sense of doom. The figures seem incorporeal; sinuous outlines and......
https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/laocon/WQGAoHxyYQDzkQ