Apollo Belvedere
Sign in to saveAlso known as Pythian Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, Apollo Belvedere (Apollo of the Belvedere; Pythian Apollo), Apollo of the Belvedere; Pythian Apollo
Roman statue copy after a Greek bronze original attributed to Leochares
Key facts
- Artist
- After Leochares
- Year
- c. AD 120 –140
- Type
- White marble
- Dimensions
- 224 cm (88 in)
- Location
- Vatican Museums , Vatican City
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- statue
- Named after
- Apollo
- Country
- Vatican City
- Genre
- nude
- Main subject
- Apollo
- Depicts
- chlamys
- Material used
- marble
- Creator
- Leochares
- Collection
- Vatican Museums
- Location
- Vatican Museums
- Image
- Apollo of the Belvedere.jpg
- Height
- 224
Show 5 more facts
- inception
- 0350-00-00
- Commons category
- Apollo Belvedere
- inventory number
- 1015
- title
- Apollo Belvedere (Apollo of the Belvedere; Pythian Apollo)
- location of discovery
- Anzio
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Encyclopedic overview
The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) 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. It was rediscovered in central Italy in the late 15th century during the Italian Renaissance and was placed on semi-public display in the Vatican Palace in 1511, where it remains. It is now in the Cortile del Belvedere of the Pio-Clementine Museum of the Vatican Museums complex.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Apollo Belvedere” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.