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Head of Apollo Belvedere ( Pythian Apollo )

File: Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel 1725-86 by Sir Joshua Reynolds. jpg | Captain the Honourable Augustus Keppel in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere, 1753

In 1794, France's revolutionary armies began bringing pieces from Northern Europe, augmented after the Treaty of Tolentino ( 1797 ) by works from the Vatican, such as Laocoön and His Sons and the Apollo Belvedere, to establish the Louvre as a museum and as a " sign of popular sovereignty ".

Works such as the Apollo Belvedere arrived during the Napoleonic Wars, but these pieces were returned after Napoleon I's fall in 1815.

* Apollo Belvedere, a statue of the god Apollo from classical antiquity

* Apollo Belvedere

Many ancient works of art have been found there: the Fanciulla d ' Anzio, the Borghese Gladiator ( in the Louvre ) and the Apollo Belvedere ( in the Vatican ) were all discovered in the ruins of villas at Antium.

His first task there was to describe the statues in the Cortile del Belvedere — the Apollo Belvedere, the Laocoön, the so-called Antinous, and the Belvedere Torso — which represented to him the " utmost perfection of ancient sculpture.

The statues, as one faces the stage are: on the right, starting near the stage: Faun with Infant Bacchus ( Naples ); Apollo Citharoedus ( Rome ); Girl of Herculaneum ( Dresden ); Dancing Faun ( Rome ); Demosthenes ( Rome ); Seated Anacreon ( Copenhagen ); Euripedes ( Rome ); Diana of Versailles ( Paris ); on the left, starting near the stage: Resting Satyr of Praxiteles ( Rome ); Amazon ( Berlin ); Hermes Logios ( Paris ); Lemnian Athena ( Dresden, with head in Bologna ); Sophocles ( Rome ); Standing Anacreon ( Copenhagen ); Aeschines ( Naples ); Apollo Belvedere ( Rome ).

Plastercasts of famous antique sculptures include: Aphrodite of Cnidus, Hercules Hesperides & Apollo Belvedere.

Keppel, by Joshua Reynolds | Reynolds, 1752-53, in the pose of the Apollo Belvedere.

Nearer the house, screening the service wing from view, is a Roman triumphal arch, the " Temple of Apollo ", also known ( because of its former use a venue for cock fighting ) as ' Cockpit Arch ', which holds a copy of the famed Apollo Belvedere.

Some years later Donato Bramante linked the Vatican with the Belvedere, under a commission from Pope Julius II by creating the Cortile del Belvedere (" Courtyard of the Belvedere "), in which stood the Apollo Belvedere, among the most famous of antique sculptures.

Many of the stylistic elements in the representations of the Buddha point to Greek influence: the Greek himation ( a light toga-like wavy robe covering both shoulders: Buddhist characters are always represented with a dhoti loincloth before this innovation ), the halo, the contrapposto stance of the upright figures ( see: 1st – 2nd century Gandhara standing Buddhas and ), the stylized Mediterranean curly hair and top-knot apparently derived from the style of the Belvedere Apollo ( 330 BCE ), and the measured quality of the faces, all rendered with strong artistic realism ( See: Greek art ).

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Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

Apollo is the son of Zeus and Leto, and has a twin sister, the chaste huntress Artemis.

Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu.

The etymology of Apollo is uncertain.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

In the Iliad, Apollo is the healer under the gods, but he is also the bringer of disease and death with his arrows, similar to the function of the terrible Vedic god of disease Rudra.

A female dragon named Delphyne ( δελφύς: womb ), who is obviously connected with Delphi and Apollo Delphinios, and a male serpent Typhon ( τύφειν: smoke ), the adversary of Zeus in the Titanomachy, who the narrators confused with Python.

At Eretria the identity of an excavated 7th and 6th century temple to Apollo Daphnephoros, " Apollo, laurel-bearer ", or " carrying off Daphne ", a " place where the citizens are to take the oath ", is identified in inscriptions.

Apollo is said to be filled with grief: out of Hyacinthus ' blood, Apollo created a flower named after him as a memorial to his death, and his tears stained the flower petals with άί άί, meaning alas.

Apollo gives an order through the Oracle at Delphi that Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover.

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

Another contender for the birthplace of Apollo is the Cretan islands of Paximadia.

Another variation is that Apollo played his instrument ( the lyre ) upside down.

Apollo is often associated with the Golden Mean.

Apollo is a common theme in Greek and Roman art and also in the art of the Renaissance.

Ranking from the very few bronzes survived to us is the masterpiece bronze Piraeus Apollo.

In the pediment of the temple of Zeus in Olympia, the single figure of Apollo is dominating the scene.

Apollo as a handsome beardless young man, is often depicted with a kithara ( as Apollo Citharoedus ) or bow in his hand, or reclining on a tree ( the Apollo Lykeios and Apollo Sauroctonos types ).

* The Terrace of the Lions also dedicated to Apollo by the people of Naxos shortly before 600 BC, had originally nine to twelve squatting, snarling marble guardian lions along the Sacred Way ; one is inserted over the main gate to the Venetian Arsenal.

* about Apollo Sauroktonos statues in marble and bronze

Taylor also published ( under the title of Marmor Sandvicense ) a commentary on the inscription on an ancient marble brought from Greece by Lord Sandwich, containing particulars of the receipts and expenditure of the Athenian magistrates appointed to celebrate the festival of Apollo at Delos in 374 BC.

The source of our knowledge about this instrument is the Mantineia marble ( 4th century BC ), now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens, depicting the mythical contest between Apollo and Marsyas, where a pandura is being played by a muse seated on a rock.

In 1714 for Marly he collaborated in two marble sculptures representing Apollo Chasing Daphne ( both at the Louvre ), in which Nicolas Cousteau sculpted the Apollo and Guillaume the Daphne.

He was commissioned by the Spartans to make a marble throne for the statue of Apollo at Amyclae, about 550 BC.

The problem was apparently solved in another way at Bassae, where, in the excavations of the temple of Apollo by Cockerell and Baron Hailer von Hallerstein, three marble tiles were found with pierced openings in them about 18 in.

The Italian Garden features a Fountain of Apollo, a wrought iron eagle statue purchased from the Paris Exposition of 1900, life-size statues of Greek gods and goddesses, floral urns mounted on marble pedestals, and two semi-circular pergolas with Tuscan columns, marble benches and statuary.

Despite difficult weather conditions they went on to uncover a fountain with its own tank at a depth of three metres, and a marble figure of Apollo, as well as another mosaic pavement with nine figures depicting Achilles being taken by Odysseus to fight in the Trojan War.

The marble Diadumenos from Delos at the National Museum, Athens ( right ) has the winner's cloak and his quiver laid upon the tree stump, hinting that he is the victor in an archery match, with perhaps an implied reference to Apollo, who was conceived, too, as an idealised youth.

The Apollo Belvedere or Apollo of the Belvedere — also called the Pythian Apollo — is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity.

The large white marble sculpture — 2. 24 m ( 7. 3 feet ) high — depicts the Greek god Apollo as a standing archer.

Another possibility is that it was the altar of Apollo, whose temple ( H ) stood just to the left and is positively identified by its threshold block, a huge piece of marble inscribed ΙΚΑΡΙΩΝ ΤΟ ΠΥΘΙΟΝ, or ‘ The Temple of Apollo of the Ikarians ’.

When contrasted with the serene single-viewpoint pose of the nearby Michelangelo's David, finished nearly 80 years before, this statue is infused with the dynamics that lead towards Baroque, but the tight, uncomfortable, verticality — self-imposed by the author's virtuosic restriction to a composition that could be carved from a single block of marble — lacks the diagonal thrusts that Bernini would achieve forty years later with his Rape of Proserpina and Apollo and Daphne, both at the Galleria Borghese, Rome.

The library has hand carved oak paneling, a fireplace, painted wall murals by Zoltan Sepeshy, tapestries and Jacobean fumed-oak furnishings and many bronze and marble statues including, Athena, Apollo, Artemis, Nike, Niobe, Venus, and Mercury.

A free-standing white marble fountain ( 1925 ) memorializes the theater in its late-18th century transformation as the Teatro Apollo, with suitable theatrical masks, and a small trickle of water into a massive sarcophagus, in the somewhat theatrical classical style of Vittorio Emmanuele III and Benito Mussolini.

* Apollo ( marble, 1753 ) commissioned by Mme de Pompadour for the park at the château de Bellevue ( at Versailles )