Apollo Musagetes
- Title:
- Apollo Musagetes
- Collection:
- Cornell Cast Collection
- Creator:
- Unknown
- Photographer:
- Alexandridis, Annetta
- Date:
- ca. 1890-1900
ca. 2nd c. CE (Roman copy)
second half of 4th c. BCE or ca. 50 BCE (Greek or Hellenistic original)
2008 (image)
- Site:
- Villa of Cassius, Tivoli, Italy (discovery site, 1774) (original)
- Location:
- Warehouse
Villa of Cassius, Tivoli, Italy (discovery site, 1774) (original) - ID Number:
- CCC_0166a
- Accession Number:
- Sage no. 262
267, inscribed in cast on joins
Apollo in pencil
262 (pencil on bottom)
inscribed in base on torso: 267
168 in pen)
166 - File Name:
- CCC_0166a.tif
- Original Measurements:
- 202.5 (H) cm (complete statue)
- Culture:
- Roman, after Greek
- Style/Period:
- Roman Imperial, Hadrianic, after Greek late Classical or Hellenistic
- 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
- Measurement:
- 69 x 82 (centimeters, height x width)
- Description:
- This is a large, damaged section of a cast of the Apollo Musagetes or Kitharoidos, a work found together with several muses in the Villa of Cassius at Tivoli. It is housed in the Vatican. Overall, the statue depicts an unbearded Apollo, draped in a floor-length, short-sleeved chiton belted below the chest and a long cape flowing behind him, and wearing a large laurel wreath on his head. His wavy hair is parted in the middle and bound up. He holds in front of him and strums a blocky kithara. The god advances with his left leg forward and his right leg back. His drapery flows behind him in a relaxed way and he looks forward calmly. Preserved in this record is the torso section of the cast, missing the god's right forearm, which has been broken away, and the left hand, cast separately and separated cleanly at the join. Some drapery is broken away. The join along the lower edge is intact and joins with ID no. 166b. The Apollo Kitharoidos type is attributed to the 4th c. BCE sculptor Skopas, but this work is perhaps a copy of a later, 1st C. CE adaptation of that earlier prototype. The head and kithara are both heavily restored on the original in the Vatican from which this cast was produced.
- Notes:
- Items in the Cornell Cast Collection are meant for inventory and reference purposes. Metadata may not be complete in all cases.
Pio Clementino no. 310 - Bibliography:
- Richard Neudecker, Die Skulpturenausstattung römischer Villen in Italien (Mainz, 1988), 230
Martin Flashar, Apollon Kitharodos. Statuarische Typen des musischen Apollon (Köln: Böhlau Verlag, 1992), 108-113, figs. 78-79
Katja Marina Türr, Eine Musengruppe hadrianischer Zeit. Die sogenannten Thespiaden, Monumenta ARtis Romanae 10 (1971), 36-40, 67, pls. 28-30 - Related Work:
- ID nos. 166, 166a, and 166b belong together.
- Repository:
- Cornell University (current)
Rome, Vatican Museums (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.