The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican Museums unveiled the ...

The 7.3 feet tall sculpture represents the eponymous Greek god of light ... who according to myth Apollo defeated with help from Artemis, or Python, the serpent guarding the Oracle of Delphi.

A Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze original from circa 330 B.C., the Apollo Belvedere has inspired ... In the 18th century, the pioneering German art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann ...

A year ago, the group sculpture was remounted and ... the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Tuby to introduce Apollo into gardens that broadly celebrated Greek myths and allegory. Tuby had completed the ...

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VATICAN CITY, Oct 15 (Reuters) - The Vatican Museums unveiled on Tuesday a restoration of one of the crown jewels of their collection, a 2nd century marble sculpture of the Greek god Apollo that ...

The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek statue ... when Pope Julius II decided to bring the sculpture to the holy city. The Vatican Museums unveiled the ...