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Sauroctonos Borghese  wikidata:Q18667809 reasonator:Q18667809
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English: Copy of Praxiteles
Français : Copie de Praxitèle
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Title
English: Borghese Sauroctonus
Français : Sauroctone Borghèse
Object type statue Edit this at Wikidata
Genre nude Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: Statue of the type of Apollo Sauroctonus (lizard-killer). Roman copy from the AD 1st century (?) after a Greek original of ca. 350 BC with 17th and 18th century restaurations. Found in Rome, 17th century (?).
Français : Statue du type de l'Apollon sauroctone (« tueur de lézard »). Copie romaine du Ier siècle apr. J.-C. (?) d'un original de Praxitèle de 450 av. J.-C. environ, restaurations des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. Découverte à Rome au XVIIe siècle (?).
Depicted people Apollo Edit this at Wikidata
Date 6 January 2005, 15:31:13
Medium
English: Coarse-grain yellowish marble from Paros (?)
Français : Marbre jaunâtre à gros grain provenant de Paros (?)
Dimensions H. (Apollo without the plinth) 1.49 m (4 ft. 10 ½ in.); H. max. 1.67 m (65 ½ in.)
institution QS:P195,Q19675
Current location
Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities, Sully, ground floor, gallery of the Melpomene
Accession number
Ma 441 (MR 78)
Place of creation Italy Edit this at Wikidata
Place of discovery Rome Edit this at Wikidata
Object history
Credit line Borghese Collection; purchase, 1807
References Winckelmann, 1760, p.190, no.1120
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Source/Photographer Marie-Lan Nguyen (2005)
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