Apollo Belvedere

American  

noun

1. a Roman marble statue, possibly a copy of a Greek original of the 4th–1st centuries b.c.

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Example Sentences

Classical statues such as the Venus de Milo and the Apollo Belvedere are often considered the apex of human perfection.

From Salon • Sep. 4, 2021

One shows McKeller’s recognizably African American head in meager outline transformed on the same sheet of paper into a more worked-up head of Apollo, based on a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere.

From Washington Post • Mar. 5, 2020

As a student he drew everything in Rome from antique to Baroque sculptures — from the celebrated Apollo Belvedere, all poised restraint, to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s explosive sunburst, “Glory,” at the Vatican.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2017

The chief, borrowing his contrapposto pose from the Apollo Belvedere, wears full Highland dress in reference to his clan’s role in the Jacobite Rising of 1745.

From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2014

The Galician socialism likewise is not an Apollo Belvedere, but nevertheless it has different lineaments and less broad cheek-bones.

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk