id: 163448 accession number: 2004.30 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2004.30 updated: 2025-07-11 17:02:14.419000 The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer, c. 350–200 BCE. Attributed to Praxiteles (Greek, Athenian, c. 400–330 BCE), or Follower. Bronze, copper, and stone inlay; base: 0.5 x 47.3 x 40.7 cm (3/16 x 18 5/8 x 16 in.); overall: 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (59 1/16 x 19 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2004.30 title: The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 350–200 BCE creation date earliest: -360 creation date latest: -190 current location: 100 1916 Lobby creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Greece, Athens technique: bronze, copper, and stone inlay department: Greek and Roman Art collection: GR - Greek type: Sculpture find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Praxiteles (Greek, Athenian, c. 400–330 BCE) - artist c. 400/390-330/325 BC * Follower - artist --- measurements: Base: 0.5 x 47.3 x 40.7 cm (3/16 x 18 5/8 x 16 in.); Overall: 150 x 50.3 x 66.8 cm (59 1/16 x 19 13/16 x 26 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo opening date: 2013-09-29T00:00:00 Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 29, 2013-January 5, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Ernst-Ulrich Walter, Germany date: footnotes: citations: [Phoenix Ancient Art, 2004] date: 2004 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2004- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS id: 86403 Apollo (Ascendant), 2018. Michael Loderstedt (American, b. 1958). Color screenprint on Rives BFK paper; image: 76 x 30.2 cm (29 15/16 x 11 7/8 in.); sheet: 76.8 x 57 cm (30 1/4 x 22 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 2019.247 relationship: --- CITATIONS "Original, copie, représentation antique? Quleques considérations sur les images d'Apollo Sauroktonos," in eds. Colloque international sur les bronzes antiques, Crişan Muçeţeanu, Lucia Teposu Marinescu, Christina Ştirbulescu, and Valentin Bottez, The Antique bronzes typology, chronology, authenticity : the acta of the 16the International Congress of Antique Bronzes organised by the Romanian National History Museum, Bucharest, May 26th-31st 2003 (Bucharest: Cetatea de Scaun, 2004), pp. 301-304. page number: url: "Acquisitions of the year," Apollo: The International Magazine of Art and Antiques. (December 2004). page number: p. 51 (ill.). url: Brand, Arthur. Het verboden Judas-evangelie en de schat van Carchemish. Soesterberg: Aspekt, 2006. page number: p. 140, fig. 6 url: Praxitèle. Paris: Société française de promotion artistique, 2007. page number: p. 207, fig. 126a url: Laugier, Ludovic. "Praxitèle et la Polychromie," Dossier de l'Art, no. 139 (March 2007) page number: p. 56 url: Harris, Lucian. "Louvre will not show Cleveland Apollo." The Art Newspaper vol. XVI no. 178 (March 2007) page number: url: Flescher, Sharon, "Cleveland Museum Returns 14 Works To Italy," IFAR Journal vol. 11 (9), 2009 page number: p. 7, fig. 3 url: Barbillon, Claire, and Sophie Mouquin. Écrire la sculpture: de l'antiquité à Louise Bourgeois : une anthologie. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 2011. page number: p. 37 url: Olszewski, Edward J. "Praxiteles' Apollo and Pliny's "Lizard Slayer."" Source: Notes in the History of Art 31:2 (Winter 2012) page number: p.4, fig. 1A url: Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, and C. Griffith Mann. Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012. page number: pp. 38-9 url: Bennett, Michael J. 2013. Praxiteles: The Cleveland Apollo. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art. page number: url: Brinkmann, Vinzenz. Zurück zur Klassik: ein neuer Blick auf das Alte Griechenland : eine Ausstellung der Liebieghaus Skulpturensammlung, Frankfurt am Main, 8. Februar bis 26. Mai 2013. München: Hirmer, 2013. page number: Abb. 230, p. 222 ; Abb. 234, p. 224 ; Abb. 242, p. 226 ; Abb. 243, p. 227 ; Abb. 247, p. 229 ; p. 214 url: Gill, David. Context Matters 'The Cleveland Apollo Goes Public' The Journal of Art Crime 10 (Fall 2013): 71-75. page number: Mentioned: p. 71-75 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 53 no. 05, September/October 2013 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: Cover-2, 8 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2013-05 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 83 url: Snyder, Colleen, Ernst Pernicka, and Peter Northover. "The Cleveland Apollo: Recent Research and Revelations." In Colloque International Sur les Bronzes Antiques. Artistry in Bronze: The Greeks and Their Legacy: XIX International Congress on Ancient Bronzes, Jens Daehner, Kenneth D. S. Lapatin, and Ambra Spinelli, eds., 329-340. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum and the Getty Conservation Institute, 2017. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 329-340 url: http://www.getty.edu/publications/artistryinbronze/conservation-and-analysis/40-northover/ Daehner, Jens and Kenneth D. S. Lapatin. Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World. Firenze : Giunti, 2015. page number: Reproduced: pp. 24-26, fig. 1.6; url: Stephen Ongpin Fine Art, and Stephen Ongpin. Renaissance to Futurism: A Selection of Italian Drawings, 1500-1920. 2015, 6. page number: Mentioned in notes section, No. 2, Note 1 (unpagenated) url: Todisco, Luigi. Prassitele di Atene: scultore e bronzista del IV secolo. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider editore, 2017. TAV. XII page number: Reoroduced: TAV. XII url: Angelicoussis, Elizabeth, Daniella Ben-Arie, and Andrew F Stewart. 2017. Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles. Edited by Gerard M.-F Hill. Munich: Hirmer. page number: Pp. 113-117, Fig. 13.10. url: Neils, Jennifer. “Praxiteles to Caravaggio: The Apollo Sauroktonos Redefined.” Art Bulletin 99, no. 4 (December 2017): 10-30. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 13-14, fig. 7; P. 18, fig. 13 url: Childs, William A. P. Greek Art and Aesthetics in the Fourth Century B.C. Princeton, NJ: Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press, 2018. page number: Mentioned: p. 195; Reproduced: p. [439] pl. # 182 url: Stewart, Peter. "Ancient Greek Artists and Texts: Loss and Re-Creation," 47-58. Catherine M. Draycott, Rubina Raja, Katherine E. Welch, and William T. Wootton. Visual Histories of the Classical World: Essays in Honour of R.R.R. Smith. Turnhout : Brepols, 2019. page number: Reproduced: p. 51, fig. 4.2' Mentioned: p. 52 url: Isacker, Philip van, and Helen Simpson. De Sculptura: Reflections on Sculpture. Ghent : Mer. B&L, imprint of Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2021. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 207, fig. 168 url: Pevnick, Seth and Colleen Snyder. "Shedding New Light on an Ancient Bronze Figure: Ongoing Research on the Cleveland Apollo" CMA Thinker on Medium (June 16 2022). page number: url: https://medium.com/cma-thinker/shedding-new-light-on-an-ancient-bronze-figure-b21ad979a99f Pevnick, S. and C. Snyder. 2024. "New Research on the Cleveland Apollo," in Bartus, D. – Mráv, Zs. – Szabó, M. (eds): Proceedings of the XXIst International Congress on Ancient Bronzes. Dissertationes Archaeologicae Supplementum 4 (2024): 87–112. page number: url: https://ojs.elte.hu/dissarch/article/view/8756/7542 Bennett, Michael. "Outlaw : the Dark Legacy of Michel van Rijn." Antiqvvs 7. n. 1 (Winter 2025): 31-34. page number: Mentioned: p. 33; Reproduced: cover, p. 34 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.30/2004.30_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.30/2004.30_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2004.30/2004.30_full.tif