Apollo the Python-Slayer, c. 350 BC. Since antiquity Praxiteles’s masterpiece has been known as "Sauroktonos" (Lizard-Slayer). Pliny the Elder almost certainly saw the bronze original in Rome in the first century AD. He described a young Apollo about to stab a lizard with an arrow. Roman marble copies seemed to support this identification because they included lizards clinging to thick tree trunks. Until the acquisition of the only known bronze version by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2004, there was no reason to question Pliny’s epithet. The Cleveland Apollo's " Stock Photohttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/apollo-the-python-slayer-c-350-bc-since-antiquity-praxitelesx2019s-masterpiece-has-been-known-as-quotsauroktonosquot-lizard-slayer-pliny-the-elder-almost-certainly-saw-the-bronze-original-in-rome-in-the-first-century-ad-he-described-a-young-apollo-about-to-stab-a-lizard-with-an-arrow-roman-marble-copies-seemed-to-support-this-identification-because-they-included-lizards-clinging-to-thick-tree-trunks-until-the-acquisition-of-the-only-known-bronze-version-by-the-cleveland-museum-of-art-in-2004-there-was-no-reason-to-question-plinyx2019s-epithet-the-cleveland-apollos-quot-image330074627.html
RM2A505FF–Apollo the Python-Slayer, c. 350 BC. Since antiquity Praxiteles’s masterpiece has been known as "Sauroktonos" (Lizard-Slayer). Pliny the Elder almost certainly saw the bronze original in Rome in the first century AD. He described a young Apollo about to stab a lizard with an arrow. Roman marble copies seemed to support this identification because they included lizards clinging to thick tree trunks. Until the acquisition of the only known bronze version by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2004, there was no reason to question Pliny’s epithet. The Cleveland Apollo's "
White House interior, Old Green Room (1st interior photo?) President's study, between 1860 and 1880. [On the table is a copy of the Diana of Gabii sculpture]. Stock Photohttps://www.alamy.com/licenses-and-pricing/?v=1https://www.alamy.com/white-house-interior-old-green-room-1st-interior-photo-presidents-study-between-1860-and-1880-on-the-table-is-a-copy-of-the-diana-of-gabii-sculpture-image474679557.html
RM2JG7EH9–White House interior, Old Green Room (1st interior photo?) President's study, between 1860 and 1880. [On the table is a copy of the Diana of Gabii sculpture].
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