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Lot Essay
La présente version datée du XIXème siècle de l’Apollon du Belvédère reproduit fidèlement le regard passif et la coiffure élaborée de l’original. Les circonstances entourant la date et le lieu de la découverte de l’original restent mystérieuses, sachant qu’il s’agit d’une copie romaine d’une statue originale grecque réalisée par Léocharès. Jusqu’en 1503, l’original était en la possession du Cardinal della Rovere, le futur pape Jules II et fondateur des Musées du Vatican. Depuis 1514 la Cour du Belvédère au Vatican accueille plusieurs des antiquités les plus célèbres du monde gréco-romain, incluant l’original sur lequel est basé le présent lot, ainsi que le Laocoon et les fleuves Tibre et Nil.
The present 19th century version of the Apollo Belvedere faithfully captures the passive gaze and elaborate coiffure of the original. The circumstances surrounding the date and place of the discovery of the original are unclear, itself a marble Roman copy of the Greek original by Leochares. Before 1503 the original was in the possession of Cardinal della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II and the founder of the Vatican Museums. By 1514 the Vatican’s Belvedere Court housed some of the most acclaimed antiquities from the Graeco-Roman world, including the original the present lot is based on, The Laocoon, and the Rivers Tiber and Nile.
The present 19th century version of the Apollo Belvedere faithfully captures the passive gaze and elaborate coiffure of the original. The circumstances surrounding the date and place of the discovery of the original are unclear, itself a marble Roman copy of the Greek original by Leochares. Before 1503 the original was in the possession of Cardinal della Rovere, the future Pope Julius II and the founder of the Vatican Museums. By 1514 the Vatican’s Belvedere Court housed some of the most acclaimed antiquities from the Graeco-Roman world, including the original the present lot is based on, The Laocoon, and the Rivers Tiber and Nile.