Found 1 items, similar to The Apollo Belvedere.
English → English (gcide)
Definition: The Apollo Belvedere
Apollo
\A*pol"lo\, n. [L. Apollo, -linis, Gr. ?.] (Classic
Myth.)
A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light
and day (the
“sun god”), of archery, prophecy, medicine,
poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of
manly grace and beauty; -- called also
Ph['e]bus.
[1913 Webster]
The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the
Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed
of the noblest representations of the human frame.
[1913 Webster]