Il nudo maschile nella statuaria italiana a tutto tondo all'aperto: L'APOLLO SAUROTTONO, Villa Magnani, PALATINO, found in 1777. -- VATICANO

Speranza

Apollo leaning agaist a tree-trunk with a lizard running up it. He held an arrow in his right hand and perhaps a cord tethering the lizard in his left.

• Height: 1.71m.
• marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as Apollo Sauroktonos (Apollo lizard-slayer).
  • is a version of the original bronze statue made by Praxiteles in about 350 BC.
  • was found in Rome on the Palatine (Villa Magnani) in 1777.
  • is now in Rome, Musei Vaticani, Galleria delle Statue, inv. 750.