Apollo Belvedere
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Alabaster stone
Measurements
482 x 302 x 180 mms
Order this imageCollection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 355664
Summary
Alabaster on carved stonework base, Apollo Belvedere. Male figure standing with left arm extended with a cloak draped over, the right hand resting on a tree trunk with snake. An alabaster figure of the antique statue of the Apollo Belvedere after an early Roman Hadrianic period copy of 120 AD of a Greek bronze original by Leochares, 350-320 BC, excavated in Rome in the fifteenth century and now in the Belvedere courtyard of the Vatican Museum.
References
Haskell and Penny 1981: Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique, The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500 - 1900, New Haven and London, 1981, 8, fig. 77