Apollo Kitharoidos, Altemps Inv8594

Palazzo Altemps (Museo Nazionale Romano), Rome, Italy
Artist/Maker Unknown, restorer: Ippolito Buzzi (Italian, 1562–/1634)

Apollo Kaitharoidos. Marble, original parts (torso and right leg): Roman copy from the first half of the 1st century CE after an Hellenistic original. Heavily restored in the 17th century: head (after the Belvedere Apollo type), neck, right shoulder, left arm and lyre, left leg and cloak.

Dimensions Unspecified
Credit line Former Ludovisi Collection
Accession number Inv. 8594
Location Ground floor
Photographer/Source Jastrow (2006)

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