#apollo of belvedere

[arthistoryiscooliguess]

Bust of the Apollo of Belvedere in Rundāle Palace, Latvia

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Restored 'Apollo Belvedere' Marble Statue Back in the Vatican

The Vatican Museums on Tuesday unveiled the restoration of the celebrated second-century "Apollo Belvedere" sculpture following five years of work.

Once considered to epitomise classical Western ideals of beauty, the 2.24-metre-high (seven-feet-tall) marble statue shows the Greek god of medicine and poetry in motion, his left arm having just let fly an arrow from his bow.

Its around 260,000-euro ($280,000) restoration aimed to fix serious structural defects detected late in 2019, the restorers said.

Those notably included fragilities in the legs and an overall lack of balance in the structure, they told a press conference.

Thanks to the introduction of a carbon-fibre rod fixed to the back of the base, the "Apollo Belvedere" was successfully stabilised and presented to public applause at the Vatican's Pio-Clementine Museum.

The most difficult thing was "not to touch anything on the sculpture" and avoid having to move and dismantle it, the restoration workshop's head Guy Devreux told AFP.

"We found this new system, which is a dynamic structural system based on the use of carbon fibre… and which, used in the right way, can give extraordinary results," he added.

For the Vatican Museums' director Barbara Jatta, "the main challenge was to have the courage to close access to such an important icon for our museums".

Discovered in 1489 among the ruins of an ancient Roman house, the "Apollo Belvedere" was brought to the Vatican by Pope Julius II.

Besides the carbon-fibre rod, the restorers also replaced the statue's left hand with a cast taken from a fragment of a plaster copy of the original Greek statue made in Roman times.

The "Apollo Belvedere" is in fact considered to be a marble copy of a bronze from around 330 BC attributed to Leochares, one of the foremost sculptors of his time.

[a-studious-reej]

Some watercolor studies... It's been ages since I broke out the watercolor set, and it took me a FEW times to finally remember how to use them, but I'm pleased with how these turned out!

Of course they're lil studies from Apollo Belvedere and Caravaggio's Bacchus.

My butthole was CLENCHED doing these I was GRIPPING the side of my chair like... Don't fuck it up don't fuck it up don't fuck it up... BUT we persevered and honestly I had a lot of fun. I'll probably try to do more again.

Finally got some semi-edible grapes off our grapevine today too (they're still a little sour, but I wasn't expecting ANY so I'm pleased either way), so this was an excellent way to celebrate!

[evilios]

Versions of the color reconstruction of Apollo Belvedere done by Stephen Chappell, an American digital artist. These pieces were done for the exhibition Qui es-tu, Apollon? (Who are you, Apollo?) that is currently held by the Juliobona museum, Lillebonne, France.

This is my personal favorite part of the artist's explanation as to why he chose specific colors for this statue (beyond those derived through polychrome research):

As for the chlamys (cloak), I felt the color red was appropriate for this moment where Apollo is a death bringer, a warrior. This isn’t Apollo the kitharist, the musician; this isn’t Apollo the lover. This is the sun god with his corona of golden hair, loosing a golden arrow to kill the monstrous python. His cloak had to be red.

The exhibition will be open until November 30, 2023.

More on the process behind it and the exhibition: 🏺

[sporclechezchunklets]

Apollo Belvedere (AKA Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, Pythian Apollo), marble, 2nd c. A.D. Now in the Vatican Museums. (Photo by Livioandronico2013, via Wikimedia Commons. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license)

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Napoleon as Apollo Belvedere, god of plagues, by Antoine-Jean Gros

Napoleon (left), Apollo Belvedere (right)

[goetiae]

Statue d'Apollon (Apollon du Belvédère)

Painted by the French artist Charles Meynier (1768-1832) in either 1794 or 1795, this oil on canvas artwork depicts the statue of Apollo Belvedere, one of the most famous statues of the Ancient God. It is 3 meters in height and 1.53 meters in width, towering over the viewer.

The gallery of art created by Meynier is full of other examples of paintings based off Ancient legends, myths, and stories.

[apollosoractis]

Summe deum, sancti custos Soractis Apollo.

Soractis, similarly to Soranus and Śuri, is a name from a elderly italic cult (Virgil) of a solar deity who eventually got syncretized within Apollo.

Soranus and Apollo probably derived from Suri, a god of the underworld who was recorded in Etruscan inscriptions from at least the 6th century BC: he was known by the Faliscans as Soranus (Roman Dis Pater, probably a 'younger version' of Jupiter) and at Cumae as Aplu, an underworld version of Apollo.  On this hypothesis, the Etruscan Suri gave his name to both Soranus (applied to Apollo) and Soracte (applied to this mountain cult).

Drawing of Apollo del Belvedere, 1510 - 1527

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[hobbitofgallifrey-art]

Study of the Apollo of Veii, 510-500 bce. Archaic style is so fun. There is metallic paint on there but it doesn't show up properly here.

[ordon-pumpkin]

Me going in a furniture store I’ve never been in and seeing a little storage box with a tiny gold statue for the lid handle. I walked closer because the shape looked familiar.

Apollo: Hi. 👋

Me: of course it’s you. 😆☀️

[loneviatoris]

Bless me oh my curse of existence

[hades-bat]

Belvedere Apollo is probably my favourite artwork ever. it's the one who made me realise I wanted to study art in the future. do u think it's possible to find men that look like that irl ??

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Apollo

1 artist unknown, Roman copy (c120CE) of a Greek bronze after Leochares (c350BCE) marble 224cm

2 Marcantonio Raimondi (1470/82-1534) Italian The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python (c1510–27) engraving

3 Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) German Adam and Eve (1507) oil on panel, each 209x81cm

A    metmuseum.org    The Apollo Belvedere was discovered near Rome in the late fifteenth century. Possibly a second-century marble copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, the statue was immediately appreciated as a masterpiece and showered with praise. Probably once in the private collection of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (later Pope Julius II, r. 1503–13), it was moved to the Vatican in 1509 and placed, in 1511, in the Cortile del Belvedere, from which it derives its name. Raimondi's print became an important vehicle through which knowledge of the statue was transmitted far beyond the Vatican. He is famous for his many engravings after the designs of Raphael, including images such as the Judgment of Paris (19.74.1), scenes that, like the Apollo, illustrate Renaissance interest in classical antiquity and mythology. Here, Raimondi's mastery for replicating the effects of light on marble produces a convincing impression of the statue's form. Many artists incorporated the Apollo's much-lauded pose into their own work. Albrecht Dürer reverses the position of the figure's limbs and Apollo becomes Adam, reaching for the fruited branch offered by Eve in the 1504 engraving . A similar figure of Apollo, whose outstretched arm grasps—too late—a fleeing nymph, appears in the 1625 marble group Apollo and Daphne by the Roman Baroque sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598–1680).

B   Johann Winckelmann (1717-68) Germany     Of all the works of antiquity that have escaped destruction, the statue of Apollo represents the highest ideal of art. (1755)

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[greendomine]

petition to resculpt Apollo Belvedere so apollo has a bigger dick. this is unfair give my man a huge cock!!!!!!