Ancient Roman statuary at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: MARBLE TORSO of APOLLO GIUSTINIANI (Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903)

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Marble torso of the so-called Apollo Lykeios
Period: Mid-Imperial, Hadrianic or Antonine
Date: A.D. 130–161
Culture: Roman
Medium: Marble, Island
Dimensions: H. 96.5 cm
Classification: Stone Sculpture
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Frederick F. Thompson, 1903
Accession Number: 1903.12.12a

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.