A LOUVRE MUSEUM FULL SIZE PLASTER CAST OF 'THE APOLLO BELVEDERE' LATE 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY The plinth base with impressed oval medallion mark Musee Du Louvre, Interdite, Ateliers De Moulage',approximately 230cm high, 160cm wideThe original white marble statue from which this is a cast is thought to be a Roman copy of a lost bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares and depicts Apollo as a standing archer. The statue was rediscovered during the Renaissance, probably in 1489 in the Anzio region of Italy and was in the private collection of Giuliano della Rovere before he became Pope Julius II. He moved it to the Vatican where today it is in the Gabinetto delle Maschere of the Pio-Clementine Museum (after a brief sojourn from 1798-1815 when Napoleon displayed it in the Louvre). The statue was restored in the 1530s when the left hand, right forearm, and fig leaf were added at the request of Pope Paul IV.