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Supposedly bronze. Figurine 26 cm Please identify hallmarks of the master and to assess in advance thank you!
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Apollo Belvedere
Of original Greek sculpture to have survived very little. In the first centuries of Christianity, as well as during the barbarian invasions, and during the early Middle Ages, almost all ancient bronze statues were melted down. The marble images of gods and heroes rushes down from their pedestals, and often elegant marble was used for burning lime.
A copy of the original Greek, originally created in bronze Leoharom - court sculptor of Alexander of Macedon, scientists and art historians believe the statue of Apollo Belvedere. The statue was found in the XV century in Anzio - in the possession of Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere. Having ascended the papal throne and became Pope Julius II, he commanded to put the statue in the Belvedere Palace Ottogonskom courtyard in the Vatican.
The perfect body is crowned by the Greek god proudly planted his head slightly raised up and turn sharply to the left. The perfect face look a little animated asymmetrically-set eyes. The sparkling eyes of Apollo directed into the distance.
The fact that God is behind the quiver, we can assume that in the extended left hand he held a bow, while the right was, apparently, another attribute of Apollo. The remains of it still visible at the upper end of the barrel, and judging by them, some researchers suggest that the ancient god holding a laurel branch entwined with a bandage.
Tightly encircling the chest and shoulders, wide mass behind Apollo is going to cloak, forming the background, which (like the front of the curtain) emerges the perfect body.
During the reign of Pope Julius II, in 1506, a statue of Apollo was established in the antiquities market, built by architect D. Bramante in the garden of the Belvedere in the Vatican. Hence its name. The trunk of the tree to support the right hand of Apollo in the original bronze was absent, it was supplemented by the repetition of copyist in the marble. However, the statue was found with a broken hand. In 1550 an Italian sculptor J. Montorsoli, a pupil of Michelangelo, supplemented with both hands.
The statue of Apollo Belvedere strikingly embodies what the Greeks called "theophany" - "the sudden entry into the real world of hitherto unseen divinity."
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