Baseplate for the Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer
possibly by Praxiteles (Greek, Athenian, c. 400–330 BCE)
or Follower
c. 350–200 BCE, or possibly later
- Medium
- bronze
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Dimensions
- Base: 0.5 x 45.8 x 40.3 cm (3/16 x 18 1/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Greece, Athens
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Art
- Credit line
- Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The baseplate is nearly square in shape, but two edges are noticeably concave. A modern hole facilitates mounting (with a modern rod in the right leg), and marks show the placement of both feet, once attached with lead solder. A nearly circular lead solder mark located at the front left corner likely corresponds to the placement of a small tree, now lost.
