Laocoön and His Sons
Artist: Agesander, Athanadoros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
The Vatican's Laocoön group shows the Trojan priest and his two young sons in the grip of sea serpents. This short spoken tour explains what the sculpture represents and how its composition turns that punishment into marble. It draws on the supplied Wikimedia Commons file and its multilingual captions, not on the sculptures' full scholarly literature.