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The sculptor of the Venus de Medici is not known; and the Apollo Belvedere is a masterpiece, the author of which lies shrouded in the depths of the past.
How to See the British Museum in Four Visits W. Blanchard Jerrold 1855
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Of these the Apollo Belvedere in the Vatican collection is one of the most remarkable.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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He was not compressed into the mould of positive beauty, like that of the Apollo Belvedere or the American citizen.
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Greek art in those days began with Phidias and ended with the Apollo Belvedere; and a child could travel from one to the other without danger of losing its way.
The Pelican 1898
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It is the Apollo Belvedere of modern times, the "Catholic Apollo," as Forsyth calls the archangel of
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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This is the Apollo Belvedere, discovered at the end of the fifteenth century, some say in a Roman villa or farm-house near the
The Girl with the Green Eyes A Play in Four Acts Clyde Fitch 1887
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The stars sparkle round about, the Italian sergeant has a face like Apollo Belvedere, and the German painter sings a lovely German song.
Venus in Furs Leopold Sacher-Masoch 1865
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