The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python, Marcantonio Raimondi

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The Apollo Belvedere from the Vatican his left hand resting on the tree trunk around which coils a python, ca. 1510–27, Engraving, 11 7/16 x 6 3/8 in. ( x cm), Prints, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?)), The Apollo Belvedere was discovered near Rome in the late fifteenth century. Possibly a second-century marble copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, the statue was immediately appreciated as a masterpiece and showered with praise

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