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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".
Rare Renaissance work, the Apollo Belvedere, goes on show at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge.
Statue of Apollo Belvedere Statue of the faun with cymbals. About 90 metres south of the Atlas Fountain are a pair of statues. One depicts Apollo Belvedere and is a copy of a statue by Leochares in the Vatican Museums in Rome. It is grade II* listed, made of lead and was designed by John Cheere.
The South Vestibule consisting of a rectangular room beneath the Portico linked by five arches to a semicircular section beneath the Saloon, that has a large niche flanked by smaller ones each side of the north door; these used to house plaster casts of statues, to the west: Dancing Faun, Apollo Belvedere and Ganymede; and to the east: Ptolemy ...
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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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