Vatican Among the best-known examples is the
Apollo Citharoedus, also known as
Apollo Musagetes ("Apollo, Leader of the Muses"), of the
Vatican Museums, a 2nd-century AD colossal marble statue by an unknown (probably Roman) sculptor. Apollo is shown crowned with
laurel and wearing the long, flowing robe of the Ionic bard. The statue was found in 1774 with seven statues of the
Muses, in the ruins of
Gaius Cassius Longinus' villa near
Tivoli, Italy. The sculptures are preserved in the Hall of the Muses, in the Museo Pio-Clementino of the Vatican Museums.
Other examples A marble sculpture now identified as
Pothos (following a lost Greek 4th-century BC original by
Skopas) was restored as an
Apollo Citharoedus; it is conserved in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo,
Capitoline Museums, Rome. Another marble
Apollo Citharoedus (2.29m), from a Hellenistic original attributed to
Timarchides, of the 2nd century BC, also stands in the Great Hall of the Palazzo Nuovo. Other examples include the
Apollo of Mantua and the
Apollo Barberini, possibly a copy of the cult statue of the
Temple of Apollo Palatinus; it is conserved in the
Glyptothek, Munich. The in the
National Archaeological Museum, Naples is identified as Apollo but is clearly a female figure. Its provenance is unclear; it has been much restored, the head is unlikely to be original and the figure was probably of
Vesta. ==References==