Apollon Sauroktonos - statue CensusID: 10010848 Location Paris, Musée du Louvre Inventory no. inv. MA 441 Description Class Type Material Present Condition Original Number Descriptive Details Dimensions sculpture statue marble restored no 01 figure male youth nude standing leaning against tree trunk lizard god Apollo type: Sauroktonos height: 149 cm History Date of Creation Style Artist(s)/Creator(s) Preservation Event(s) 1st cent. Roman unknown Date Action Person responsible Note(s) unknown restored unknown restored: right hand and a part of the lower arm left arm except upper third Provenance Provenance Event(s) Date Location 1650, around-1807-09-27 Roma, Villa Borghese Date 1807-09-27 Person Napoleon Bonaparte responsible Note(s) acquisition Relationships Corpus Winckelmann Document(s): > Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002) > Winckelmann, GK1, 1764 (ed. 2002) > Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > Winckelmann, GK2, 1776 (ed. 2002) > book 2 > ch. 2 > p. 658 > ll. 02-07 > book 1 > ch. 4 > p. 306 > ll. 11-15 > p. 309 > ll. 09-13 > p. 355 > ll. 14-15 > p. 713 > ll. 19-24 > p. 659 > ll. 30-32 Original: 13 Feb 2017 22:13:31 1/2 untraced: Greek Original of Apollon Sauroktonos - statue Parallel Replica(s) known to Renaissance: Firenze, Uffizi: Torso of Apollon Sauroktonos - statue Roma, Villa Albani: Herm with Head of Apollon Sauroktonos - herm Roma, Villa Albani: Apollon Sauroktonos - statue untraced: Apollon Sauroktonos - statue untraced: Apollon Sauroktonos - statue London, BM, G&R: Apollon Sauroktonos - gem untraced: Apollon Kitharoidos - statue Napoli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale: Torso of Apollon Sauroktonos - statue Roma, Villa Albani: Venus of Fréjus Type with Head of Apollon Sauroktonos - statue References Bibliography: > Lexikon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae, I-(...), Zuerich, Muenchen 1981-(...) > vol. II, p. 199, no. 81, p. 378, no. 53 > Giulio Emmanuele Rizzo: Prassitele, Milan 1932 > p. 39f. > Jean-Luc Martinez: Le marbre MA 441 du Louvre et les copies du type de l'Apollon Sauroctone, in: Histoire de l'art 3 (1988) > pp. 17-28 > Klein, Wilhelm: Praxiteles, Leipzig 1898 > p. 108, no. 2 > Jean Charbonneaux: La sculpture grecque et romaine au Musée du Louvre, Paris 1963 > p. 63 > Francis Haskell, Nicholas Penny: Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900, New Haven/London 1981 > pp. 151-153, no. 9 > Luigi Todisco: Scultura Greca del IV Seclo, Milan 1993 > no. 126 > Renate Preisshofen: Der Apollon Sauroktonos des Praxiteles, in: Antike Plastik 28 (2002) > pp. 5659, no. S 1 > Adolf H. Borbein, Max Kunze: Ville e palazzi di Roma, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Mainz 2003 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann: Schriften und Nachlaß 5,1) > pp. 8, 157, 185 > Mathias René Hofter, Axel Rügler, Adolf H. Borbein et al.: Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums, Katalog der antiken Denkmäler, ed. by Adolf H. Borbein, Thomas W. Gaethgens, Johannes Irmscher, Max Kunze, Mainz 2006 (Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Schriften und Nachlass IV.2) > pp. 147-149, no. 299 Comment inserted: Peter Betthausen Thomas Fröhlich Eva Hofstetter Sascha Kansteiner 13 Feb 2017 22:13:31 2/2