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	Agesander -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Agesander, a (Click link for more info and facts about Rhodian) Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by (Roman author of an encylclopedic natural history; died while observing the eruption of Vesuvius (23-79)) Pliny (Nat.
		Inscriptions recently found at (Click link for more info and facts about Lindus) Lindus in Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the period 42-21 B.C. The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after long controversy.
		It represents the culmination of a sentimental or pathetic tendency in art, which is prominent in the somewhat earlier sculpture of (An ancient Greek city located in the western part of what is now modern Turkey; the technique of preparing sheepskins as parchment was developed here) Pergamum.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ag/agesander.htm (124 words)

	Agesander of Rhodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agesander, a Rhodian sculptor, whose title to fame is that he is mentioned by Pliny (Nat.
		Inscriptions found at Lindus in Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the period 42 BC-21 BC.
		The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after long controversy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agesander (132 words)

	Agesander -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		“Laocoön,” marble sculpture attributed to Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus of …
		Roman writer Pliny as the creator, with Polydorus and Athenodorus, of the group “Laocoön.” Nothing further is known of him except that inscriptions found at Lindus in Rhodes indicate that he was alive between 42 and 21
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	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 68 (v. 1) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		AGESANDER or AGESILA'US ('AyfoavSpos or 'AyecnAaos), from ayeiv and dvrip or Aaos, a surname of Pluto or Hades, describing him as the god who carries away all men.
		Pliny does not hesitate to pronounce it superior to all other works both of statuary and painting.
		A great deal has been written respecting the age when Agesander flourished, and various opinions have been held on the subject.
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	AGESANDER - LoveToKnow Article on AGESANDER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Inscriptions recently found at Lindus in Rhodes date Agesander and Athenodorus to the period 42-21 B.C. The date of the Laocoon seems thus finally settled, after long controversy.
		It represents the culmination of a sentimental or pathetic tendency in art, which is prominent in the somewhat earlier sculpture of Pergamum.
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	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AG/AGESANDER.htm (93 words)

	Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		On this page: Agesander – Agger – Aglaia – Agnatio – Agon – Agonothetes – Agora – Agoracritus – Agoranomus – Agraulos – Agriculture
		In the civil wars of Sulla the Ager Publicus in Italy, which had been nearly all used up in assignations, received so vast an increase by the extermination of whole townships, by proscriptions and confiscations, that even after all the soldiers had been provided for, there remained a portion undistributed.
		The celebrated group of the Laocoon is the joint work of Agesander, Athenodorus, and Poly-dorus.
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		The museum and collection were enlarged by Clement's successor Pius VI.
		Today, the Museum houses works of Greek and Roman art; Apollo del Belvedere (attributed to Leochares), Laocoon and his Sons by Agesander and the Belvedere Torso are the best known.
		This museum is named after Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti, who founded it in the early 1800s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vatican_Museums (334 words)

	Some Sculptures In The Vatican
		There is now no doubt that "The Laocoon" is the group slightly misdescribed by Pliny.
		Of this `The Laocoon' is an example, which stands in the palace of the Emperor Titus-a work which may be considered superior to all others both in painting and statuary.
		The whole group-the father, the boys, and the awful folds of the serpents-were formed out of a single block, in accordance with a -vote of the senate, by Agesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus, Rhodian sculptors of the highest merit"-Pliny, lib.
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		It was found in 1506, under the pontificate of Julius II, at Rome, on Mount Esquiline, in the ruins of the palace of Titus.
		The three Rhodian artists, AGESANDER, POLYDORUS, and ATHENOPORUS, mentioned by Pliny, as the sculptors of this _chef d'oeuvre_ flourished during the time of the Emperors, in the first century of the Christian era.
		The group is composed of five blocks, but joined in so skilful a manner, that Pliny thought them of one single piece.
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	The Laocoön (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the late 16th century it was exalted as an example of unrestrained emotion; Titian, El Greco, and Peter Paul Rubens used it as a model; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe wrote about it; and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing named his treatise (1766) on aesthetics for it.
		Pliny the Elder, in his Historia Naturalis (1st century AD), attributed the statue to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus.
		Its date is uncertain: if it is Hellenistic, it dates from the 2d or 1st century BC; if Roman (based on a Hellenistic prototype), from the first century of the Christian era.
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	Brewer, E. Cobham. Dictionary of Phrase & Fable. Laocoon [La-ok’-o-on]. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		The group representing these three in their death agony, now in the Vatican, was discovered in 1506, on the Esquiline Hill (Rome).
		It is a single block of marble, and was the work of Agesander of Rhodes and two other sculptors.
		Thomson has described the group in his Liberty, pt.
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	Laocoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the Laocoon group he had found an example from classical art.
		The statue had been carved from marble by three sculptors (Agesander, Polydorus and Athenodorus of Rhodes) who put their highly developed technical skill to the service of sensational realism.
		The myth was retold in The Aeneid by Virgil.
	www.sculpturegallery.com /sculpture/laocoon.html (268 words)

	Agesander * People, Places, & Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
		Agesander * People, Places, and Things * Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant
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		"People, Places and Things: Agesander", Greek Mythology: From the Iliad to the Fall of the Last Tyrant.
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	Worldisround - Inside the Hermitage, St. Petersburg - Photograph - The LAOCOON Group
		Worldisround - Inside the Hermitage, St. Petersburg - Photograph - The LAOCOON Group
		Museums & Theatres in Saint Petersburg picture - Agesander, Athenodorus and Polydorus of Rhodes.
		Laocoon is the Trojan priest who warns his fellow Trojans not to take the wooden horse left as a gift by the Greeks.
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		Blake's substitution of his own signature, Drawn & Engraved by William Blake, for the sculptor's, Athanodorus, son of Agesander, of Rhodes, made it, is another revision as well as one that calls attention to the others--Blake created his own Laoco[ddot...
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