The god Apollo strides forward, having just loosed an arrow, perhaps at the serpent Python. This marble is a Roman copy of the 2nd century CE, probably after a lost bronze of about 330–320 BCE attributed to the Greek sculptor Leochares. Displayed in the Vatican's Belvedere courtyard from 1511, it was hailed by 18th-century Neoclassicists as the finest ancient sculpture.
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The tree stump beside his right leg, with a snake coiled around it, is a support the heavy marble copy needed and the bronze original did not.
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