Apollonios of Athens

Signature of Apollonios on the torso of the Belvedere

Apollonios of Athens , son of Nestor, was a Greek sculptor and arch-builder from Athens who lived in the 1st century BC. Chr. Lived.

The most important work of the representative of late Hellenistic sculpture is the famous torso of the Belvedere , which can be seen today in the "Belvedere", a courtyard of the Vatican Museums . Johann Joachim Winckelmann named and described the sculpture - probably wrongly - as Heracles . The interpretation as a hero is obvious. The signature of Apollonios - Apollonios son of Nestor, the Athenian, made it - can be found on the rock seat of the torso. For a long time there was another signature on the sling of the seated pugilist in the thermal bath museum . However, the assignment was refuted by Margherita Guarducci in 1959/60. The assignment of the bronze statue of a young athlete with a lance in the same museum and the group of three, Amykos and the Dioskuren, and the Tondo Gaddi, associated with this statue, is uncertain .

literature

Günther Bröker , Werner Müller : Apollonios (VI). In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , pp. 71-72.
Hans Zeller: Winckelmann's description of the Apollo in the Belvedere, in: Zurich contributions to German literary and intellectual history. Ed. V. Emil Staiger, No. 8, 1955. 246 pp.

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personal data
SURNAME	Apollonios of Athens
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Apollonios from Athens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Greek sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	1st century BC Chr.
PLACE OF BIRTH	Greece Ancient Greece Athens
DATE OF DEATH	1st century BC Chr.