Apollonios of Athens
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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The torso from the Belvedere, description by Winckelmann
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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. |