Apollo sauroctone

The Apollon sauroctone is Greek a sculptor type traditionally allotted to Praxitèle, representing the god Apollon being on the point of killing a lizard, mainly known by the Sauroctone Borghèse preserved at the Musée of Louvre (My 441), the Sauroctone of the Vatican preserved at the Musée Pio-Clementino (Inv. 750) and more recently, by the bronze Apollo preserved at the Cleveland Museum off Art (Inv. 2004-30).

From a point of view historiographic, work was at the origin of the Kopienforschung (“research of the copies”), step consisting in recomposing a prototype lost starting from the study of the copies, alternatives, representations on other supports (Intaille S, Monnaie S, etc) and texts literary.

History

In Rome, at the 17th century, is discovered in Rome a statue life size of a teenager threatening a lizard crawling on a tree trunk, which joined quickly the collections of the cardibal Scipion Borghèse. In 1720, the baron von Stosch brings closer a stone engraved to his collections of a passage of Pline Old the: “(Praxitèle also made out of bronze) a young Apollo, watching for with an arrow a lizard crawling, and which one calls sauroctone. ” In 1760, Johann Joachim Winckelmann extends the bringing together to the Borghèse Apollo and a bronze statuette of the Albani collection. After having thought of the latter, he recognizes in his Histoire of art (1760) an original of Praxitèle in the Apollon Borghèse . The discovery a few years later of others sauroctones, and in particular of another statue life size - the Sauroctone of the Vatican - ruin this assumption. Winckelmann and its Italian colleague Ennio Quirino Visconti determine whereas they are Roman copies of the same type. In 1807, the Sauroctone Borghèse belongs to the statues that the prince Camille Borghèse, in prey with serious financial problems, is constrained to sell to his brother-in-law Napoleon I {{er}}. Work then joined the Musée of Louvre, where it is always.

In 2003, the study of the type is started again by the marketing of a statue hitherto a41dernier $c-b1, e,10 $c-b26 ce $c-b16 $c-b43, bn,84 unknown, which proves to be only Sauroctone life size out of bronze. According to its salesman, it comes from a private residence located in old GDR, where it was regarded as a copy of. Acquired in 2004 by the Cleveland Museum off Art, the “Apollo of Cleveland”, as it soon is called, is dated by the first analyzes like pertaining to the second classicism, and is presented by Michael Bennett, conservative of the department of Greek and Roman antiquities with the CMA, like being able to have been the statue seen by Pline. The statue is the subject also of a controversy on its origin, of the rumors affirming that it was actually plundered in Italy or Greece, which led the archaeological central Council (KAS) Greek to officially require of Louvre not to accommodate it within the framework of its exposure Praxitèle of spring 2007.

“The sauroctone of Corinthe.
Child trapper, saves the lizard which rampe
towards you, it wishes to die under your fingers. ” -->

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