Belvedere Torso
Statue by Apollonius of Athens
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The Belvedere Torso is a 1.59-metre-tall fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently on the front of the base by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", who is unmentioned in ancient... Wikipedia
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This celebrated marble torso, a fragment of a statue found in Rome at the end of the 15th century, came into the Vatican collections between 1530 and 1536.
The Belvedere Torso is a 1.59-metre-tall (5.2 ft) fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently on ...
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Belvedere Torso, Hellenistic sculpture fragment of a male nude (5 feet 2 5/8 inches [1.59 m] high) in the Vatican Museum; the work is signed by the Athenian ...
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Posted: Apr 20, 2021
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Aug 23, 2023 · Belvedere Torso, Vatican Museum ... Broken marble statue showing a male torso and partial legs. The head, arms, and lower legs have all broken off ...
The Belvedere Torso is famous, in part, because of Michelangelo's admiration for it. It is also notable for being one of the few fragmentary ancient ...
May 19, 2020 · The Belvedere Torso was an example of a work whose style and technique were thought to express the perfection of the ancient past.
Dating from the 1st century BCE, it represents a colossal nude male torso, bereft of the head, arms and lower legs, captured in the act of twisting to the left, ...