Cleveland Museum of Art's Apollo sculpture is a star with intriguing past
The bronze, which stands 5 feet tall with a exquisitely mottled green and dark-red skin acquired from having been buried for centuries, depicts a uncovered, adolescent boy preparing to spear a lizard with an arrow.
The marble's right arm is missing from above the elbow and the formerly larboard arm is gone from the shoulder down, although the museum has the Nautical port hand and forearm -- and the inconsequential, squiggly lizard Apollo was getting subject to to kill.
After several years in storage, the group and its detached pieces are ready to think about a starring role in the museum's newly renovated galleries of grey and medieval art, scheduled to open Saturday.
The firmer ascription to Praxiteles signals that Bennett is working on from the controversy that has dogged the sculpture since the museum acquired it from Phoenix Primordial Art, a dealership with offices in New York and Geneva, Switzerland.
Chief among the questions about the Apollo Source: Plain Dealer
