The Belvedere Apollo in restoration
The Belvedere Apollo in restoration

The Belvedere Apollo in restoration

January 2020

As the new year begins, the conservative restoration of one of the most iconic and admired works in the Octagonal Court of the Vatican Museums: the statue of the Belvedere Apollo, is now underway.
The sculpture, a replica of a bronze executed between 330 and 320 B.C. by Leochares, owes its consecration to the great German historian J. J. Winckelmann, who considered it a sublime expression of Greek art, “of all the works of antiquity that have escaped destruction, the statue of Apollo represents the highest ideal of art”.

During the coming months, visitors to the Pope's Museums will therefore not be able to view the masterpiece which, however, after restoration, will be presented in its newfound beauty and renewed splendour.