Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

Marble statue of the so-called Apollo Lykeios

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Copy of a Greek bronze of the mid-4th century B.C. often attributed to Praxiteles Right ankle and foot, right knee and area above and below, left kneecap and foot, tree trunk, and base are modern restorations. This is a Roman version of a famous statue of Apollo that stood in the Lyceum, a large outdoor gymnasium just outside the walls of Athens. The Roman writer Lucian described the work as Apollo resting after his labors with his right arm resting on his head. This copy was part of a collection of ancient sculpture assembled by the Marquess Vincenzo Giustiniani in the first third of the seventeenth century in Rome. The stance is somewhat awkward as the legs were restored from numerous pieces.

Greek and Roman Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Marble statue of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble statue of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble statue of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble statue of the so-called Apollo LykeiosMarble statue 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.