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The Laocoön is an oil painting created between 1610 and 1614 by renowned Greek artist and Spanish Renaissance master Doménikos Theotokópoulos known as El Greco (The Greek). It is part of a collection at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C..The painting depicts the Greek and Roman mythological story of the deaths of Laocoön a Trojan priest of Poseidon and his two sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus.
