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309 - The Strangford Apollo
Strangford Apollo
DATE 500 - 490 BC
AUTHOR Unknown Artist - Greece
MEDIA Marble
SIZE 101 cm tall
LOCATION UK - London - The British Museum
NOTES Marble statue of a youth standing in the conventional pose of a kouros, said to be from the island of Anáfi, Cyclades, Aegean Sea. The conventional smile was replaced by a solemn pout, the facial expression of classical sculpture. The figure is known as the Strangford Apollo after a previous owner, the sixth Viscount Strangford.
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