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

Depictions of the Greek gods also confirm that the mullet was a style of the time: the Apollo Belvedere, a second-century Roman sculpture, portrays Apollo with hair tied at the top and ringlets flowing down his neck.

From New York Times

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

From Salon

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

Also on display are a plaster cast of the Apollo Belvedere, a teaching skeleton and an Egyptian mummy, fondly referred to as “the hospital’s oldest patient.”

From Washington Post

Why Dutch painter Hendrik Frans van Lint’s sweet little 1730 tourist view of the Piazza Navona didn’t make the installation’s cut, nor American artist John Singleton Copley’s magnificent, full-length 1780 portrait of soldier Alexander Montgomerie, striding like a Scottish translation of the Vatican’s Apollo Belvedere, is anybody’s guess.

From Los Angeles Times