page_title: Apollo Belvedere
section_title: Modern history
hierarchical_section_title: Apollo Belvedere / Modern history
caption_attribution_description: English: Head of Apollo, recalling the Apollo Belvedere. Marble, Roman copy of ca. 120-140 AD after a Hellenistic original. From Rome. Français&#160;: Tête d'Apollon rappelant l'Apollon du Belvédère. Marbre, copie romaine de 120-140 ap. J.-C. d'après un original hellénistique. Provenance&#160;: Rome.
context_page_description: The Apollo Belvedere is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity.
  The Apollo is now thought to be an original Roman re-creation of Hadrianic date. The distinctively Roman foot-wear is one reason scholars believe it is not a copy of an original Greek statue. It was rediscovered in central Italy in the late 15th century during the Italian Renaissance and was placed on semi-public display in the Vatican Palace in 1511, where it remains. It is now in the Cortile del Belvedere of the Pio-Clementine Museum of the Vatican Museums complex.
  From the mid-18th century it was considered the greatest ancient sculpture by ardent neoclassicists, and for centuries it epitomized the ideals of aesthetic perfection for Europeans and westernized parts of the world.
caption: Head of Apollo, modeled on the Apollo Belvedere (Marble, Roman copy of ca. 120–140 AD), once in the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani and James-Alexandre de Pourtalès (British Museum)
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