ANCIENT ART SOURCES FOR THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

The Apollo Belvedere

Selected links

• Engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi, circa 1530/1534.

• A dramatic photo

• A small site

• Wretched poem on the A.B. by Robert Service. Also, on a site loaded with pop-ups. You have been warned.

Influence of the Apollo Belvedere

• Bernini's Apollo and Daphne 1622/1625. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

• Francois Girardon's Apollo tended by the Nymphs of Thetis of 1666 at Versailles.

• Study by Francois Baillairg, circa 1778-1781. Tiny image from a site flogging the Amico Library.

• Casts and variations of the AB in Russian collections. Watch out for the annoying music.

• Apollo and the Romans All about all the Apollos.