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The Laocoön is a recurring theme among renaissance painters, combining Greek high-drama and violent death. The scene depicts the death of the Laocoön, a Trojan priest of Poseidon. During the Greek siege of Troy, it was the Laocoön that mistrusted the now infamous Greek horse. But the god’s were on the side of Greece, and the Laocoön’s warning earned him and his sons a cursed death by sea-snake. Rough. read more