Marble torso of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

Marble torso of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Copy of a Greek bronze statue of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles This torso was part of the collection of antiquities assembled in Rome by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani during the first third of the seventeenth century. As was the custom during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, contemporary sculptors carved the missing parts and added them to what remained of the ancient statue. This torso was mistakenly restored as Dionysos instead of Apollo. The seventeenth-century additions were removed when it came to The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marble torso of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble torso of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble torso of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble torso of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble torso of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

The Museum's collection of Greek and Roman art comprises more than thirty thousand works ranging in date from the Neolithic period (ca. 4500 B.C.) to the time of the Roman emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity in A.D. 312. It includes the art of many cultures and is among the most comprehensive in North America. The geographic regions represented are Greece and Italy, but not as delimited by modern political frontiers: Greek colonies were established around the Mediterranean basin and on the shores of the Black Sea, and Cyprus became increasingly Hellenized. For Roman art, the geographical limits coincide with the expansion of the Roman Empire. The department also exhibits the art of prehistoric Greece (Helladic, Cycladic, and Minoan) and pre-Roman art of Italic peoples, notably the Etruscans.