Apollo Sauroktonos (Attic Greek: Άπόλλων Σαυροκτόνος) (Apollo Lizard-killer) is the title of several 1st – 2nd century AD Roman marble copies of an original by the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles. The statues depict a nude adolescent Apollo about to catch a lizard climbing up a tree.

The Apollo (also known as Sauroktonos) is a mainstay in classical art history. [3] It has been considered a major work of Praxiteles and is known from Roman marble replicas, coins, and gems. [3]

In the centuries since Pliny wrote his Natural History, many Roman marble copies of Praxiteles’s bronze Apollo Sauroktonos have been discovered. Art historians studied these marble copies closely to understand what they can tell us about Praxiteles’s style and the original they imitate.

The Cleveland Apollo is the only surviving large-scale bronze sculpture of its type, Apollo Sauroktonos (the Lizard-Slayer).

Feb 13, 2025 · Lizard-like creature from The Cleveland Apollo, c. 350–200 B.C.E., bronze, 14.8 cm (The Cleveland Museum of Art) Our understanding of the Apollo Sauroktonos changed in 2003, when a controversial bronze sculpture was put up for sale by an art dealer in Switzerland.

The life-size (H 150 cm or 59 in.) artwork depicts a youthful god of the sauroktonos type, including a small, serpent-like creature, now detached. The sculpture is nearly complete, missing only parts of both arms and the accompanying tree.

Jun 16, 2022 · The Cleveland Apollo is the only surviving large-scale bronze of its iconographical type, known as Apollo Sauroktonos (Apollo the Lizard-Slayer). This name comes from the Roman author Pliny the...

Roman copy of a Greek bronze original. The implied action shows how quick and agile the young god is; but the pose is languid, graceful and sinuous, as is typical of all of the sculptures of Praxiteles to survive as Roman copies. Roman. Original: c.350 BCE.

Apollo Sauroktonos (Attic Greek: Άπόλλων Σαυροκτόνος) (Apollo Lizard-killer) is the title of several 1st – 2nd century AD Roman marble copies of an original by the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles. The statues depict a nude adolescent Apollo about to catch a lizard climbing up a tree.

The Apollo Sauroktonos ("the Lizard-Slayer") "Apollo the Lizard-Slayer" is without doubt the best-known statue type attributed to Praxiteles after the Aphrodite of Cnidus, thanks to the existence of numerous literary and numismatic sources (some 20 Roman replicas exist, in marble and bronze).