Apollo Sauroktonos
- Title:
- Apollo Sauroktonos
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown (Roman copy)
Praxiteles (Greek original)
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
1st c. CE (Roman copy)
ca. 350-340 BCE (Greek original)
2008 (image)
- Location:
- Warehouse
- ID Number:
- CCC_0134b
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 260
134 - File Name:
- CCC_0134b.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 149 (H) cm
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, after Greek Classical
- Work Type:
- casts (sculpture)
- Materials/Techniques:
- plaster cast (sculpture)
marble sculpture in the round (original) - Subject:
- Apollo (Greek deity)
- Image View Type:
- overall
- Image View Description:
- from front
- Description:
- This is a section of a damaged cast of a Roman marble copy of the Apollo Sauroktonos of Praxiteles, a bronze sculpture depicting the youthful Apollo preparing to kill a lizard. In the original, the pubescent Apollo stands displaying a pronounced s-curve, placing his weight on his right leg with his left bent slightly and resting back. He rests his raised left elbow against a tall tree trunk and looks down at a large lizard located two-thirds of the way up the trunk. In his right hand he held a now-missing dart (in the original) poised to strike the lizard. Apollo's wavy hair is parted in the middle, banded with a thin fillet, and twisted up at either side. His face is narrow, his eyes thick-lidded and almond-shaped, his nose long, and his lips full. His muscles are soft. In the original, restorations have been made to the god's arms and to the lizard's head. Preserved in this record are the upper third of the tree trunk that has been broken away at a diagonal, the body of the lizard with its head missing, and the middle section of Apollo's left arm. The statue is attributed to Praxiteles by Pliny (N.H. 34.70) and Martial (14.172).
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Ma 441 - Bibliography:
- Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique: The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981), 208-209
Renate Preisshofen, Der Apollon Sauroktonos des Praxiteles. Antike Plastik 28 (2002), 41-115
Andrew Stewart, Greek Sculpture (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990), 178-179, 280-281, fig. 509 - Related Work:
- ID nos. 134, 134a, and 134b belong together.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Paris, Louvre (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.