Visual Legacy
Light, Music, Prophecy
Apóllōn through the eyes of sculptors, painters, and craftsmen across three millennia
Apollo Belvedere — Roman copy of a Greek original by Leochares, c. 330 BCE. The ideal of male beauty and divine composure.
Apollo Belvedere (full) — The god stands in contrapposto, having just released an arrow from his bow.
Apollo Lykeios — The god rests on a support, a mantle draped over his arm. Found at the Lyceum gymnasium in Athens.
Apollo Sauroktonos — Praxiteles, c. 350 BCE. The young god leans against a tree, about to spear a lizard.
Temple of Apollo at Delphi — The omphalos, the navel of the world. Where the Pythia spoke prophecy.
Apollo and Daphne — Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1622–25. Marble transformed into living flesh, bark, and laurel leaves.
Apollo Slaying Python — Attic red-figure pelike, c. 460 BCE. The god avenges his mother by killing the serpent.
Apollo Citharoedus — The lyre-player. Music so perfect it could charm stones and bend the will of gods.
Apollo — Roman copy, Hermitage Museum. The archer god, perfect in form, terrible in wrath.
