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Collection Online as of December 21, 2025

Baseplate for the Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer

c. 350–200 BCE, or possibly later

possibly by Praxiteles

(Greek, Athenian, c. 400–330 BCE)

or Follower

Greece, Athens
bronze
Base: 0.5 x 45.8 x 40.3 cm (3/16 x 18 1/16 x 15 7/8 in.)
Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2004.30.d
Location: 100 1916 Lobby

Did You Know?

Most large-scale ancient bronze sculptures stood on bases made of stone rather than bronze.

Description

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.
  • Ernst-Ulrich Walter, Germany
    2004
    [Phoenix Ancient Art, 2004]
    2004-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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)
  • Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 29, 2013-January 5, 2014).
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2004.30.d