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THE APOLLO BELVEDERE.
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born giant Tityos, who, daring to touch Apollo's mother, was smitten by the
god ; still others believed the enemy to be Niobe's family. The subject, how-
ever, assumed a new phase, when in i860 notice was drawn, by Stephani, to a
statuette owned by Count Stroganoff in St. Petersburg, and discovered well-nigh
seventy years before in Epeiros. This Stroganoff bronze (Fig. 255), which is
sixty centimeters high, has the same pose as the Belvedere statue; but both its
Fig. 254. The Apollo Belvedere. Marble Statue in the Portico Belvedere of the Vatican. (Here conjecturally
restored as carrying an ccgis.)
hands are happily preserved, and are exceedingly graceful. The extended left
arm is, by some unknown cause, bent too far towards the body, and should
follow more nearly the turn of the proud head. Close study of the bronze has
shown that a large part of the mantle is lost. The finding in Rome in 1866,
by Steinhauser, of a marble head, which is now in Basic, furnished new fuel
'°r the flame of discussion.'-" It also clearly represented the same subject as
the famous Apollo of the Belvedere, but, in some respects, seemed superior to
62-
born giant Tityos, who, daring to touch Apollo's mother, was smitten by the
god ; still others believed the enemy to be Niobe's family. The subject, how-
ever, assumed a new phase, when in i860 notice was drawn, by Stephani, to a
statuette owned by Count Stroganoff in St. Petersburg, and discovered well-nigh
seventy years before in Epeiros. This Stroganoff bronze (Fig. 255), which is
sixty centimeters high, has the same pose as the Belvedere statue; but both its
Fig. 254. The Apollo Belvedere. Marble Statue in the Portico Belvedere of the Vatican. (Here conjecturally
restored as carrying an ccgis.)
hands are happily preserved, and are exceedingly graceful. The extended left
arm is, by some unknown cause, bent too far towards the body, and should
follow more nearly the turn of the proud head. Close study of the bronze has
shown that a large part of the mantle is lost. The finding in Rome in 1866,
by Steinhauser, of a marble head, which is now in Basic, furnished new fuel
'°r the flame of discussion.'-" It also clearly represented the same subject as
the famous Apollo of the Belvedere, but, in some respects, seemed superior to