Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART: Plaster Cast Collection; Belvedere Torso
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Collection:
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ADJUNCT MODULE D: WORLD ART
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Preferred Title:
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Plaster Cast Collection; Belvedere Torso
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Image View:
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Overall side view of the cast from the right side
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Creator:
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after Apollonios of Athens (Ancient Greek sculptor, active 1st century BCE)
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Location:
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repository: Villa Medici (Rome, Lazio, Italy)
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Location Note:
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French Academy at Rome, Gipsoteca
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GPS:
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+41.908+12.483
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Date:
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cast, 19th century (creation); original, 1st century BCE (other)
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Cultural Context:
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Ancient Greek
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Style Period:
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Hellenistic
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Work Type 1:
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replica
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Work Type 2:
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cast (sculpture)
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Classification:
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Sculpture and Installations
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Material:
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plaster cast
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Technique:
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casting (process)
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Subjects:
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human figure; mythology (Classical); art education; plaster cast collections
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Description:
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The Villa Medici contains some of the collections of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici as well as collections as part of the French Academy in Rome, including a Gipsoteca, a plaster-cast collection for study purposes. The Belvedere Torso is a fragmentary marble statue of a nude male, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently on the front of the base by "Apollonios, son of Nestor, Athenian", who is unmentioned in ancient literature. It is now in the Museo Pio-Clementino (Inv. 1192) of the Vatican Museums. The sculpture dates from the 1st century BCE; the artist was most probably inspired by a bronze from the first half of the 2nd century BCE. (Source: Vatican Museums (Musei Vaticani) [website]; http://www.museivaticani.va/)
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Collection:
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Archivision Adjunct Module D: World Art
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Identifier:
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6A2-I-R-VM-GYP-TDB-A03
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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