Marble torso of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

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130–161 CE · Marble, Island · Greek and Roman Art

Copy of a Greek bronze statue of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles This torso was part of the collection of antiquities assembled in Rome by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century. As was the custom during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, contemporary sculptors carved the missing parts and added them to what remained of the ancient statue. This torso was mistakenly restored as Dionysos instead of Apollo. The seventeenth-century additions were removed when it came to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Artist

Unknown

Date

130–161 CE

Medium

Marble, Island

Culture

Roman

Department

Greek and Roman Art

Credit line

Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903