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The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) [1] is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity.. The work has been dated to mid-way through the 2nd century A.D. and is considered to be a Roman copy of an original bronze statue created between 330 and 320 B.C. by the Greek sculptor Leochares. [2]
Winckelmann arrived in Rome in November 1755. His first task there was to describe the statues in the Cortile del Belvedere—the Apollo Belvedere, the Laocoön, the so-called Antinous, and the Belvedere Torso—which represented to him the "utmost perfection of ancient sculpture".
Here, the palace changed names again to how it is known today, Palazzo Conti di Poli, or Palazzo Poli. The Conti family was responsible for many more extensions, including purchasing and incorporating of many adjacent buildings which formed the Piazza di Trevi.
Ancient Rome is a trio of almost identical paintings by Italian artist Giovanni Paolo Panini, produced as pendant paintings to Modern Rome for his patron, the comte de Stainville, in the 1750s.
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Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi (c. 1460 – 1528), 12 sculptures : The Belvedere Apollo, Liebieghaus, Frankfurt ; Arnolfo di Cambio (1240–1302), 57 sculptures : Tomb of Cardinal de Braye, San Domenico, Orvieto ; Egid Quirin Asam (1692–1750), 3 sculptures : Assumption of the Virgin, Pilgrimage-church, Rohr, Bavaria
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A head of Apollo with hair of the Apollo Belvedere type of the Vatican dates from the period following the Social War (91–87 BC). The villa was enlarged over the centuries and enriched with private baths with hypocaust heating between the 2nd and 3rd century AD, with a mosaic floor with figurative motifs.