Carrara Marble, 60 Cm, Apollo Belvedere, 19th Century Sculpture

Period: 19th century, marble in good condition.
Signed: no
Subject: Bust of the Apollo Belvedere
Dimensions: 60 cm high, Width: 45 cm, Depth: 30 cm, weight: 35/40 kg

The Apollo Belvedere is a Roman marble sculpture from the Antonine period based on a Greek bronze original usually attributed to Leochares, a sculptor from the second half of the 4th century BC. It represents the god Apollo walking, holding in his hand what was probably a bow. It is exhibited at the Pio-Clementino Museum (Vatican Museums) under number 1015.
The Apollo Belvedere was the subject of copies and replicas from the beginning of the 16th century: François I, for example, had a bronze copy made for the Château de Fontainebleau1. Pierre Mazeline made a copy in 1683 for the gardens of the Château de Versailles.
It is often associated with the Diana of Versailles, as with Chatsworth House and the Château de Malmaison. Michelangelo takes up the position of the body, the nudity and the hairstyle of the Apollo in his David.
Annibale Carracci gives his features to Bacchus in his fresco representing the triumph of the god and Ariadne at the Palazzo Farnese in Rome. A copy is also in the Great Hall of Syon House in South-West London. The architect Robert Adam used a copy for his interior decoration program.

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Sculpture visible at our gallery in L'Isle sur la Sorgue (France), at the weekend. Free shipping for France. And on estimate for abroad