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Sunday, July 22, 2012

Cellini, "Apollo e Giacinto"

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Since this statue was NOT a commission, Cillene was free to depict any sujbect he chose.

His choice was indeed singular.

GIACINTO, son of EBOLO, a high priest of APOLLO, attracted the notice of APOLLO,, who presented himself as A SHEPHERD.

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As they sported together, GIACINTO threw a discuss farther than APOLLO.

When APOLLO, trying to overtake him, made another throw, the discuss hit GIACINTO and killed him.

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Cellini's sculptoric group shows APOLLO with his left foot on the corner of the base and his right leg erect.

Apollo's left wrist rests on his thigh.

In his left hand, APOLLO holds a discus.

APOLLO's right hand reaches back, caressing the hair of the kneeling GIACINTO.

The 'gruppo scultoreo' was installed in the Boboli Gardens, where it was identified in 1940 by KRIEGBAUm.

The modelling of the light figure of GIACINTO recalls that of the wax model of PERSEO.

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