![]() ![]() In a letter to Count Heinrich von Bünau he complained: ". Winckelmann decided to pursue a new course in his career. He is entirely nude except for his sandals and that his robe (chlamys) is clasped at his right shoulder and is turned up only on his left arm and thrown back. His quiver is suspended across his left shoulder. ![]() His hair, lightly curled, flows in ringlets down his neck and rises gracefully to the summit of his head, which is encircled with the strophium, a band symbolic of gods and kings. The arrow has just left his bow and the effort impressed on his musculature still lingers. ![]() Although there is no agreement as to the precise narrative detail being depicted, the conventional view has been that the god has just overtaken the serpent Python, the chthonic serpent of Delphi. The complex contrapposto of the work has been much admired it appears to position the figure both frontally and in profile. The large white marble sculpture-2.24 m (7.3 feet) high-depicts the Greek god Apollo as a standing archer. Alternatively, it may be the slaying of the giant Tityos, who threatened his mother Leto, or the episode of the Niobids. The episode represented may be the slaying of Python, the primordial serpent guarding Delphi-making the sculpture a Pythian Apollo. The Greek god Apollo is depicted having just shot a death-dealing arrow. It is now found in the Gabinetto delle Maschere of the Pio-Clementine Museum of the Vatican Museums complex. From the mid-18th century, it was considered the greatest ancient sculpture by ardent neoclassicists and for centuries epitomized ideals of aesthetic perfection for Europeans and westernized parts of the world. It was rediscovered in central Italy in the late 15th century, during the Renaissance. The Apollo Belvedere or Apollo of the Belvedere-also called the Pythian Apollo- is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity. ![]()
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