IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 13940 accession number: M.24-1952 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bronze, cast. Loosely based on the famous Hellenistic marble group in Belvedere courtyard of the Vatican, but Laocoön's sons are positioned differently; one son, for example, is shown face down across his father's knees, arms about his head. title: figure group LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by T.W.J. Bullock STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/13940 PEOPLE ------------------- Sons Laocoön TECHNIQUES ---------- bronze, cast casting (process) CATEGORIES ------ category: sculpture DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 17th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Fanelli, Francesco DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of European Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 1540 to the present day Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge ---