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FROM ANTIQUE - LEOCHARÈS (4th century BC), Large bust of the…
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FROM ANTIQUE - LEOCHARÈS (4th century BC), Large bust of the…
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Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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FROM ANTIQUE - LEOCHARÈS (4th century BC), Large bust of the Apollo of Belvedere in Carrara marble and brown veined grey marble, stepped circular pedestal - H. 75 cm x L. 50 cm x W. 30 cm approx. (slight trace of white paint)
COMMENTS: The Belvedere Apollo found in Rome by Cardinal Giulano della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II (1503-1513), is in fact a 2nd century AD Roman copy of a Greek bronze original attributed to the sculptor Leochares (4th century BC). A source of inspiration for the greatest artists to have lived in Rome and the aristocrats who made the Grand Tour, the Apollo of Belvedere was considered in the 18th century by the art historian Winckelmann (1717-1768) to be the supreme expression of Greek art, "the highest ideal of art among all the ancient works that have come down to us".
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