Apollo Types - Apollo Lykeios, Apollino, Tiber Apollo, Apollo of Mantua, Apollo Citharoedus, Apollo Sauroctonos, Apollo Barberini (Paperback)

Chapters: Apollo Lykeios, Apollino, Tiber Apollo, Apollo of Mantua, Apollo Citharoedus, Apollo Sauroctonos, Apollo Barberini, Choiseul-Gouffier Apollo. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 26. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Apollo Lykeios type, also known as Lycian Apollo or Lycaean Apollo, originating with Praxiteles and known from many full-size statue and figurine copies as well as from 1st century BCE Athenian coinage, is a statue type of Apollo showing the god resting on a support (a tree trunk or tripod), his right forearm touching the top of his head and his hair fixed in braids on the top of a head in a haircut typical of childhood. It is called Lycian not after Lycia itself, but after its identification with a lost work described, though not attributed to a sculptor, by Lucian as being on show in the Lykeion, one of the gymnasia of Athens. According to Lucian, the god leaning on a support with his bow in his left hand and his right resting on his head is shown "as if resting after long effort." Its main exemplar is the Apollino in Florence or Apollo Medici, in the Uffizi, Florence. Statuette of the Apollo Lykeios type, Museum of the Ancient Agora of Athens (inv. BI 236)The attribution, based on the type's "elongated proportions, elegant pose and somewhat effeminate anatomy," as Brunilde Sismondo Ridgway characterised it, is traditionally supported on the grounds of the type's similarity to Praxiteles's Hermes from Olympia - one replica of the Lycian Apollo even passed as a copy of the Hermes for a time. The comparison essentially rests on the Apollino, whose head has proportions similar to those of the Aphrodite of Cnidus and whose pronounced sfumato confirms the long-held idea that it is Praxitelean in style, in spite of the many differences amomng the extant examples. ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=52866