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SALA DELLE AQUILE 1-3
straggling curls round the forehead and ears and on the neck. The
features are calm and regular, the lips parted. The eyes are set wide
apart. The chin is round and prominent.
An indifferent Roman copy, injured by drastic cleaning, of a work
by an artist of the fourth century B. c., whom Amelung would identify
with Leochares, believing the original of the Apollo of the Belvedere to
have been his work.
Formerly in the Villa of Julius III, whence it was removed by
Pius IV to the Belvedere (azzz^^z'Aca/rzzzzz Eh/z'cazzzzzzz, cf. Ligorio, TEzzz'. 23,
f. 76, ap. Htilsen, /. <r.). Given by Pius V to the Conservatori (Inv.
Boccapaduli, 30). Removed from the Archivio dell' Agricoltura in 1823
together with no. 2 (Tofanelli (1823), p. 149, no. 6) and placed in the
Sala dei Fasti; transferred to its present position in 1837.
Aczzz^, iii. 1, p. 122 ; Htilsen, Ao'zzz. 2%%?. xvi (1901), pp. 134, 173. 6;
Amelung, AzzjczzA, iii (1908), p. 132, pi. v; HeibigS, 986.
A U. xiv. 130*.
2. UPPER PART OF STATUE OF APOLLO (pi. 19).
H. -563 m. Luna, marble. Unrestored. L. arm missing from the elbow, r.
from the wrist, and the body from the navel downwards.
The head of the god is feminine in type and looks down to 1. The
hair is brushed up in straggling curls and rises in a mass high above the
crown. The iris and pupil are indicated. The surface has been highly
polished in modern times.
This work appears to be a modification of an Apollo type known
both alone (Florence, Palazzo Vecchio — Brunn-Bruckmann, 618 ; replica
of the head in Venice, z'A 619) and grouped with Hyacinthus (Deepdene,
Clarac, 494 B, 966 A, p. 234 R; cf. Michaelis's Azzczczz/AAzV/cy, pp. 284 ff.),
the former being probably the earlier conception. The statue at Florence
and its replicas may be assigned to the first half of the fourth century B. c.,
though the school remains uncertain. The supposed affinity to the style
of Praxiteles is only superficial; the works it most clearly resembles are
the 'Berenice' of Naples (Uzzz<A:, 849; Amelung in IF A. A. (1:911),
p. 598) and the 'Hygieia' at Deepdene, which has been assigned by Curtius
to the school of Scopas and compared more particularly with the supposed
Atalanta of the Tegean pediment (_/hAn3. (1904), p. 78, n. 73, cf. Amelung,
Ac. CZZ*.).
The original reproduced by the Conservatori example would seem
to have been a weakened version probably of later date.
The copy is probably not earlier than the period of the Antonines,
as is shown by the rendering of the eyes. But this feature may be
modern, as the high polish and working-over certainly are.
The pedestal dates from 1708 (Forcella, i. 209), but the statue is not
mentioned in inventories or guide-books until 1818 (Tofanelli, p. 133,
no. 14 ' Narcissus ').
Winckelmann, iv, p. 103 ; Acz/zy, iii. 1, p. 120; Arndt-Amelung, 480 ;
Overbeck, AzzzzrAzzyAc/rgz'g, Apc/Yczz, p. 130, pi. xxii. 31; HelbigS, 984.
3. BUST OF THE PERIOD OF GALLIENUS (pi. 18).
H. .37 m. Luna marble. Restored : patches on and below 1. eye, and on fore-
head. Nose slightly damaged. The bust is unbroken.
SALA DELLE AQUILE 1-3
straggling curls round the forehead and ears and on the neck. The
features are calm and regular, the lips parted. The eyes are set wide
apart. The chin is round and prominent.
An indifferent Roman copy, injured by drastic cleaning, of a work
by an artist of the fourth century B. c., whom Amelung would identify
with Leochares, believing the original of the Apollo of the Belvedere to
have been his work.
Formerly in the Villa of Julius III, whence it was removed by
Pius IV to the Belvedere (azzz^^z'Aca/rzzzzz Eh/z'cazzzzzzz, cf. Ligorio, TEzzz'. 23,
f. 76, ap. Htilsen, /. <r.). Given by Pius V to the Conservatori (Inv.
Boccapaduli, 30). Removed from the Archivio dell' Agricoltura in 1823
together with no. 2 (Tofanelli (1823), p. 149, no. 6) and placed in the
Sala dei Fasti; transferred to its present position in 1837.
Aczzz^, iii. 1, p. 122 ; Htilsen, Ao'zzz. 2%%?. xvi (1901), pp. 134, 173. 6;
Amelung, AzzjczzA, iii (1908), p. 132, pi. v; HeibigS, 986.
A U. xiv. 130*.
2. UPPER PART OF STATUE OF APOLLO (pi. 19).
H. -563 m. Luna, marble. Unrestored. L. arm missing from the elbow, r.
from the wrist, and the body from the navel downwards.
The head of the god is feminine in type and looks down to 1. The
hair is brushed up in straggling curls and rises in a mass high above the
crown. The iris and pupil are indicated. The surface has been highly
polished in modern times.
This work appears to be a modification of an Apollo type known
both alone (Florence, Palazzo Vecchio — Brunn-Bruckmann, 618 ; replica
of the head in Venice, z'A 619) and grouped with Hyacinthus (Deepdene,
Clarac, 494 B, 966 A, p. 234 R; cf. Michaelis's Azzczczz/AAzV/cy, pp. 284 ff.),
the former being probably the earlier conception. The statue at Florence
and its replicas may be assigned to the first half of the fourth century B. c.,
though the school remains uncertain. The supposed affinity to the style
of Praxiteles is only superficial; the works it most clearly resembles are
the 'Berenice' of Naples (Uzzz<A:, 849; Amelung in IF A. A. (1:911),
p. 598) and the 'Hygieia' at Deepdene, which has been assigned by Curtius
to the school of Scopas and compared more particularly with the supposed
Atalanta of the Tegean pediment (_/hAn3. (1904), p. 78, n. 73, cf. Amelung,
Ac. CZZ*.).
The original reproduced by the Conservatori example would seem
to have been a weakened version probably of later date.
The copy is probably not earlier than the period of the Antonines,
as is shown by the rendering of the eyes. But this feature may be
modern, as the high polish and working-over certainly are.
The pedestal dates from 1708 (Forcella, i. 209), but the statue is not
mentioned in inventories or guide-books until 1818 (Tofanelli, p. 133,
no. 14 ' Narcissus ').
Winckelmann, iv, p. 103 ; Acz/zy, iii. 1, p. 120; Arndt-Amelung, 480 ;
Overbeck, AzzzzrAzzyAc/rgz'g, Apc/Yczz, p. 130, pi. xxii. 31; HelbigS, 984.
3. BUST OF THE PERIOD OF GALLIENUS (pi. 18).
H. .37 m. Luna marble. Restored : patches on and below 1. eye, and on fore-
head. Nose slightly damaged. The bust is unbroken.