Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo by Michael Bennett
Since Roman times Praxiteles' masterpiece has been known as the Lizard-Slayer. Yet collectors, scholars, and students have all puzzled over the meaning of the young Apollo killing a lizard. What could Praxiteles have had in mind? What was its original context? Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo shows that the answers to these long-standing questions are implicit in the bronze sculpture acquired by the Cleveland Museum of Art in 2004. Representing Apollo's victory over the Python, the triumph of order over disorder, the Cleveland Apollo is most likely the only surviving original sculpture by Praxiteles, and the only life-size Greek bronze that can be securely attributed to a Greek sculptor by name. The author recounts the story of the acquisition and reveals the astonishing circumstances of its recovery: found on an East German estate where it had languished for decades in a ruined condition.
Michael Bennett is the Cleveland Museum of Art's first Curator of Greek and Roman Art, a position he has held since 1998. He received his doctorate in Fine Arts from Harvard University in 1994. His reinstallation of the Cleveland Museum of Art's permanent collection of ancient Near Eastern, Greek, pre-Roman, and Roman antiquities opened to the public in 2010.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781907804380 |
| ISBN 10 | 1907804382 |
| Title | Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo |
| Author | Michael Bennett |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | D Giles Ltd |
| Year published | 2013-09-01 |
| Number of pages | 112 |
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