Apollino

The Apollino or Medici Apollo is a Hellenistic sculpture of the god Apollo of the Lycian Apollo type. It is now in the Uffizi, Florence.

Its head has proportions similar to those of Praxiteles's Aphrodite of Cnidus [As represented by [http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=20300 Head Ma421] in the Louvre. it icon Giulio Emmanuele Rizzo, Prassitele, Milan et Rome, 1932, p. 80-81.] , and thus it has been argued to be a copy of a Praxitelean original, or at least to be Praxitelean in style. Others argue it is an eclectic creation from the Roman era, mixing several styles from the "second classicism". [fr icon Martinez, « Les styles praxitélisants », p. 335.] . Its left arm may have held a bow. [ [http://www.florin.ms/hareflorence1.html Augustus J.C. Hare, Florence: The Uffizi ] ]

Found complete in Rome, it was originally in the Borghese collection, until it moved to the Medici collection at Villa Medici. Unlike many ancient sculptures in the Medici collection, it was not moved to Florence in the 17th and 18th centuries, remaining in Rome. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=YL76TPcQb-oC&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=apollino+medici&source=web&ots=pFGKKEBs4y&sig=XTMxy5wEjFq82SDmNV7on3vx8Qw Hans Gross, Rome in the Age of Enlightenment: The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the ancien regime] ] It was seen by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who commented:

Early during its time at the Uffizi it was broken by a picture falling on it [ [http://www.oldandsold.com/articles26/florence-25.shtml Early 20th century Uffizi guidebook] ] and restored by Lorenzo Bartolini, who covered the whole statue with a layer of paint to disguise the repairs.

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*There is also an "Apollino Milani" in Florence's National Archaeological Museum.

Bibliography and external links

* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-6287(198510)127%3A991%3C702%3AT'RMML%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 JSTOR: That 'Most Rare Master Monsii Le Gros' and His 'Marsyas']
* [http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0075-4390(1980)43%3C150%3AGSARCI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 JSTOR: Greek Sculpture and Roman Copies I: Anton Raphael Mengs and the Eighteenth Century]
* [http://www.uniurb.it/sbc/ist_archeo/museo/img/11.jpgCast]