Apollino or Medici Apollo
- Title:
- Apollino or Medici Apollo
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 2nd c. CE (Roman copy/version)
mid 4th c. BCE (possible Greek original)
- Site:
- Italy (discovery site, 17th c.) (original)
- Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room 128), Cornell University
previously, Warehouse
(exhibited temporarily at Weinhold Chilled Water Plant, Nov. 2014-June 2015)
Italy (discovery site, 17th c.) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0188
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 261
188 - File Name:
- CCC_0188.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 141 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after late Classical or Hellenistic Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Apollo (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 145.5 (without plinth) (centimeters, height)
plinth: 8.5 x 60 x 32 (centimeters, height x width x diameter) - Description:
- This is a cast of a marble statue of the adolescent Apollo at rest, housed in Florence at the Uffizi. The work is an example of the Apollo Lykeios type, a depiction of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum at Athens in the 4th c. BCE and that has often, though by no means universally, been attributed to Praxiteles based on various elements of its style. The youthful god stands with his body forming an s-curve, placing his weight on his right (proper) leg, supporting his left elbow on a narrow tree trunk, and resting his raised right arm on his head. He turns his head to look to his left. His muscles are soft. The god's wavy hair is tied up on the top of his head in the manner of the Apollo Belvedere. His quiver is slung over the tree trunk and he holds what remains of his bow in his left hand, in the original as here. The Apollino was restored in the 18th c. and repaired after damage in 1840. This cast is in generally good condition with damage to some fingers.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 229 - Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 146-148, no. 7
Guido A. Mansuelli, Galleria degli Uffizi. Le sculture, Parte I (Rome: Instituto Poligrafico dello Stato, 1958), 74, no. 46
Margaretha Nagele, "Zum Typus des Apollon Lykeios," Jahreshefte des Österreichischen archäologischen Instituts in Wien 55 (1984), 77-105 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Florence, Uffizi Gallery (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.