Torso of Apollo
Culture: Roman
Date: 1st-4th century A.D.
Medium: Marble
Dimensions:
height: 34 1/16 in. (86.5 cm)
width: 14 13/16 in. (37.7 cm)
depth: 10 7/8 in. (27.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.144
Provenance: with Nicolas Koutoulakis (1910-1996), Geneva and Paris, by 1980; sold by Nicolas Koutoulakis to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1981; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1986
Label Text
Apollo was the god of healing, music, and poetry and was the brother of the goddess Artemis (the Roman Diana). Both the Greeks and the Romans sought to learn the will of the gods by consulting the oracle of Apollo at Delphi. Apollo was often depicted in sculpture as a youth with long hair holding a lyre or a bow and arrows. Either the lyre or the bow may have been held in one of the missing arms of this statue. A strut, probably in the form of a tree trunk, originally joined the figure’s right thigh to support the statue.
(J. Powers, 2008)
(J. Powers, 2008)
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