Collection Online as of August 15, 2022

Apollo the Python-Slayer

c. 350 BC

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attributed to Praxiteles

(Greek, c. 400BC-c. 330BC)

Greece, Athens, mid fourth century BC

Bronze, copper and stone inlay

Overall: 14.8 x 9.4 x 3.6 cm (5 13/16 x 3 11/16 x 1 7/16 in.)

Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2004.30.c

Location

100 1916 Lobby

Praxiteles

c. 400/390-330/325 BC

Provenance

Ernst-Ulrich Walter, Germany

2004

[Phoenix Ancient Art, 2004]

2004-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 83

Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, and Stephen Ongpin. Renaissance to Futurism: A Selection of Italian Drawings, 1500-1920. 2015, 6. Mentioned in notes section, No. 2, Note 1 (unpagenated)

Neils, Jennifer. “Praxiteles to Caravaggio: The Apollo Sauroktonos Redefined.” Art Bulletin 99, no. 4 (December 2017): 10-30. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 15, fig. 8

Exhibition history

The Cleveland Museum of Art (09/29/2013 - 01/05/2014); "Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo"

Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 29, 2013-January 5, 2014).