Agesander of Rhodes

This article is about the Greek sculptor. For other people with this name, see Agesander (disambiguation). For the grasshopper genus, see Agesander ruficornis.

Laocoön and His Sons, by Agesander, Athenodorus, and Polydorus

Agesander (also Agesandros, Hagesander, Hagesandros, or Hagesanderus; Ancient Greek: Ἀγήσανδρος or Ancient Greek: Ἁγήσανδρος) was one, or more likely, several Greek sculptors from the island of Rhodes, working in the first centuries BC and AD, in a late Hellenistic "baroque" style.[1] If there was more than one sculptor called Agesander they were very likely related to each other. The very important works of the groups of Laocoön and His Sons, in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at Sperlonga are both signed by three sculptors including an Agesander.

  1. ^ Boardman, 199–201