Apollo Belvedere
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| + | "... a mouth shaped like that whose touch stirred with delight the loved [[Branchus]]. The soft hair plays about the divine head as if agitated by a gentle breeze, like the slender waving tendrils of the noble vine; it seems to be anointed with the oil of the gods, and tied by Graces with pleasing display on the crown of the head."--''[[History of Ancient Art]]'' (1764) by Winckelmann on the [[Apollo Belvedere]] | ||
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| + | The '''''Apollo Belvedere''''' or '''''Apollo of the Belvedere''''' — also called the '''''Pythian Apollo''''' — is a celebrated [[marble]] [[sculpture]] from [[Classical Antiquity]]. It was rediscovered in the late 15th century, during the [[Renaissance]]. From the mid-18th century, it was considered the greatest ancient sculpture by ardent [[Neoclassicism|neoclassicists]] and for centuries epitomized ideals of [[perfection#Aesthetics|aesthetic perfection]] for Europeans and westernized parts of the world. | ||
| + | ==Works inspired or influenced by the ''Apollo Belvedere''== | ||
| + | *[[Albrecht Dürer|Dürer, Albrecht]], ''[[Adam and Eve]]'' (1504 engraving) | ||
| + | *Copies of the ''Apollo Belvedere'' appear as cultural props in [[Joshua Reynolds]]'s ''Commodore Augustus Keppel'' (1752-3, oil on canvas) and ''Jane Fleming, later Countess of Harrington'' (1778-79, oil on canvas). | ||
| + | *[[Antonio Canova|Canova, Antonio]], ''[[Perseus]]'' (1801, [[Vatican Museums]], 180x, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]])) | ||
| + | *In ''[[Childe Harold's Pilgrimage]]'' (1812-18), [[Byron]] describes how the statue requites humanity's debt to [[Prometheus]]: "And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven / The fire which we endure, it was repaid / By him to whom the energy was given / Which this poetic marble hath array'd / With an eternal glory--which, if made / By human hands, is not of human thought; / And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid / One ringlet in the dust--nor hath it caught / A tinge of years, but breathes the flame with which 'twas wrought." (IV, CLXIII, 161-163; 1459-67). | ||
| + | *[[Thomas Crawford (sculptor)|Crawford, Thomas]], ''[[Orpheus and Cerberus]]'' (1838-43; [[Boston Athenaeum]], later [[Museum of Fine Arts, Boston]]) | ||
| + | * Apollo tended by the Nymphs of Thetis | ||
| + | * ''Minute Man'' by [[Daniel Chester French]], 1874 at the [[Old North Bridge]] in [[Concord, Massachusetts]] | ||
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The Apollo Belvedere or Apollo of the Belvedere — also called the Pythian Apollo — is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity. It was rediscovered in the late 15th century, during the Renaissance. 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.
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Works inspired or influenced by the Apollo Belvedere
- Dürer, Albrecht, Adam and Eve (1504 engraving)
- Copies of the Apollo Belvedere appear as cultural props in Joshua Reynolds's Commodore Augustus Keppel (1752-3, oil on canvas) and Jane Fleming, later Countess of Harrington (1778-79, oil on canvas).
- Canova, Antonio, Perseus (1801, Vatican Museums, 180x, Metropolitan Museum of Art))
- In Childe Harold's Pilgrimage (1812-18), Byron describes how the statue requites humanity's debt to Prometheus: "And if it be Prometheus stole from Heaven / The fire which we endure, it was repaid / By him to whom the energy was given / Which this poetic marble hath array'd / With an eternal glory--which, if made / By human hands, is not of human thought; / And Time himself hath hallowed it, nor laid / One ringlet in the dust--nor hath it caught / A tinge of years, but breathes the flame with which 'twas wrought." (IV, CLXIII, 161-163; 1459-67).
- Crawford, Thomas, Orpheus and Cerberus (1838-43; Boston Athenaeum, later Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Apollo tended by the Nymphs of Thetis
- Minute Man by Daniel Chester French, 1874 at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts
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