Statuette of Apollo stringing his bow
- Title:
- Statuette of Apollo stringing his bow
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- P.P. Caproni & Brother (reproduction)
Unknown (original)
- Photographer:
- Mericle, Danielle
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
2nd c. CE
- Site:
- Boston, Massachusetts (reproduction)
Liboni (near Paramythia), Epirus, Greece (discovery site, 1791-1792) (original) - Location:
- Goldwin Smith Hall (Room GM 01), Cornell University
Boston, Massachusetts (reproduction)
Liboni (near Paramythia), Epirus, Greece (discovery site, 1791-1792) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0579
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 379
1035. in relief on base
379 (ink on paper at bottom of socle)
578 - File Name:
- CCC_0579.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 25.4 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial (perhaps Hadrianic), perhaps after Hellenistic
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
statuettes (free-standing sculpture) - Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
bronze sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Apollo (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Measurement:
- 31.8 (with socle) x 25 (without socle) (centimeters, height x height)
socle: 11.7 x 11.7 (centimeters, width x diameter) - Description:
- This is a cast of a bronze statuette identified as Apollo stringing his bow. It is housed in the British Museum. Apollo is represented here in androgynous form, with soft musculature and full thighs and calves. He stands with his weight on his right leg twisting to his left as he reaches low across his body with his right arm to string a now-missing (in the original) bow. His left hand is missing in the original. His wavy hair is parted in the middle and twisted up at the sides. His face is classicizing and he looks calmly down towards his hands The statuette comes from the Paramythia Hoard, a hoard of bronze items, predominantly statuettes, discovered in 1791-1792 near the Epirote village of Paramythia. The items were sold as scrap, recognized as valuable and purchased by a dealer, and then sold off in groups or individually to a number of European collectors. Several made their way into the collection of Richard Payne Knight, who bequeathed them to the British Museum in 1824.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
no. 1824,0405.2, Bronze 272 - Bibliography:
- Claude Bérard, Pierre Ducrey, Antoinette Altherr-Charon, eds., Bronzes hellénistiques et romains: tradition et renouveau : actes du Ve Colloque international sur les bronzes antiques, Lausanne (Lausanne, 1979), 8-13 mai 1978, 103-106, pl. 49.2
Rune Frederiksen and R. R. R. Smith, The Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum. Catalogue of plaster casts of Greek and Roman sculpture (Oxford: The Ashmolean Museum, 2011), 261, F 94 - Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
London, British Museum (original) - Collecting Program:
- Cornell Collections of Antiquities
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- The images in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Casts are protected by copyright, and the copyright holders are their creators, generally Cornell University Library, Annetta Alexandridis, and Verity Platt. This collection of plaster casts owned by Cornell University was photographed by Cornell University Library, Alexandridis, Platt, and Andreya L. Mihaloew from 2010-2015, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Annetta Alexandridis. Cornell is providing access to the materials for research and personal use. The written permission of any copyright and other rights holders is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use that extends beyond what is authorized by fair use and other statutory exemptions. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact Annetta Alexandridis and Verity Platt for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.