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The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer  wikidata:Q680075 reasonator:Q680075
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Praxiteles
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Title
English: Apollo the Python-Slayer
Object type statue / version, edition or translation / sculpture Edit this at Wikidata
Genre nude Edit this at Wikidata
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Afrikaans: Alhoewel Praxiteles meer suksesvol, en aldus meer bekend vir sy marmerbeelde was, het hy nietemin ook etlike mooi bronswerke geskep. Hy was die skepper van 'n jeugdige Apollo, die Sauroktonos (Akkedisdoder) genaamd, wat met pyl in die hand in 'n hinderlaag vir 'n kruipende akkedis wag. Hierdie standbeeld van die Apollo Sauroktonos kan die een wees wat Plinius die ouere in die 1ste eeu n.C. gesien het. Die volledige beeldhouwerk het besmoontlik gewys hoe die jong god 'n skraal lourierboom met sy opgehewe linkerhand terugtrek, terwyl hy 'n pyl op middellyfvlak met sy regterhand vashou, gereed om die akkedis wat teen die boom kruip, te deurboor. Twee Romeinse marmerkopieë bewaar die volledige komposisie – een in die Louvre, die ander in die Vatikaan. Die museum se beeldhouwerk is die enigste bekende lewensgrootte bronsweergawe van die Apollo Sauroktonos. Tegniese kenmerke soos die manier waarop die beeldhouwerk in die oudheid gegiet en herstel is, die koperinlegsels van die lippe en tepels, en die klipinsetsel vir die regteroog (die linkerkantste 'n restourasie) dui op 'n datum in die 4de eeu v.C. Tegnies kon dit egter in die Hellenistiese tydperk moontlik gewees het om so 'n werk te vervaardig. Daar word vermoed dat die Apollo Sauroktonos omstreeks 350 v.C. deur Praxiteles geskep is. Androgiene sensualiteit en ontspanne, grasieusgeboë houdings is kenmerke van sy kunsstyl. Die beste groot klassieke Griekse standbeelde was brons, maar min het oorleef. As hierdie beeld 'n produk van Praxiteles se werkswinkel is, is dit die enigste groot Griekse bronsbeeld wat aan 'n Griekse beeldhouer toegeskryf kan word. Praxiteles was alomgewild op sy dag. Sy beroemde Aphrodite van Knidos (laat 360's v.C.) het die lewensgroot vroulike naakfiguur aan Westerse kuns bekendgestel.
English: Although Praxiteles was more successful, and therefore more famous for his marble sculptures, he nevertheless also created very beautiful works in bronze. He made a youthful Apollo called the Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer), waiting in ambush for a creeping lizard, close at hand, with an arrow. This statue of the Apollo Sauroktonos may be the one Pliny the Elder saw in the 1st century AD. The complete sculpture most likely showed the young god pulling back a slender laurel tree with his raised left hand, while holding an arrow at waist level with his right, poised to strike the lizard creeping up the tree. Two Roman marble copies preserve the complete composition: one in the Louvre, the other in the Vatican. The museum's sculpture is the only known life-size bronze version of the Apollo Sauroktonos. Technical features such as the way the sculpture was cast and repaired in antiquity, the copper inlays of the lips and nipples, and the stone insert for the right eye (the left is a restoration) are consistent with a date in the 4th century BC. However, technically it may have been possible to produce such a work in the Hellenistic period. The Apollo Sauroktonos is thought to have been created by Praxiteles about 350 BC. Androgynous sensuality and languid, gracefully curved poses are hallmarks of his style. The finest large classical Greek statues were bronzes, but few have survived. If this sculpture is a product of Praxiteles' workshop, it is the only large Greek bronze statue that can be attributed to a Greek sculptor. Praxiteles was widely popular in his day. His famous Aphrodite of Cnidus (late 360s BC) introduced the life-size nude female figure to Western art.
Depicted people Apollo Edit this at Wikidata
Date 340 BC
Medium Bronze, copper and stone inlay
Dimensions Overall: 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (59 1/16 x 19 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q657415
Current location
Greek and Roman Art
Accession number
2004.3
Place of creation Greece, Athens, mid fourth century
Credit line Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
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Source/Photographer https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.30
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