Sculpture of the Hermes Belvedere also known as "Antinous Belvedere" in the Pio-Clementine Museum ,Vatican museums , Vatican
The greek god Hermes (Mercurius for the Romans) in the Pio-Clementine Museum is a 1st century Roman copy of the Greek 4th century BCE original from the Praxiteles school. Also known as "Antinous Belvedere".part of the Vatican collections. The statue was immediately famous,, engraved in all the repertories of classical art, universally admired and copied in bronze and marble for Fontainebleau in the sixteenth century and Versailles in the seventeenth century. A bronze copy figured in the collections of Charles I of England , another copy came into the collection of Louis XIV of France. A marble copy was bought by Peter the Great and casts can also be found in art academies such as those of Milan and Berlin. From aesthetic point it represents the ideal proportions in the human body and is considered to be one of the most beautiful heads of a young man from the antiquity.
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