Deity: Apollo
Title: Apollo Saettante
Artist: Unknown
Date: 3rd Century B.C.
Medium: bronze
Location: Temple of Apollo (Pompeii, Italy)
Photo from: http://www.pompeii.org.uk/public/foto/musei/64apollo4_GRANDE.jpg
Significance of work:
The statue on display at the Temple of Apollo in Pompeii is actually a replica of the original which is usually in National Museum of Naples but is being restored to be put on display in the Getty Villa in Los Angeles until 2011. At the time of Mt. Vesuvius’s eruption, Apollo was the main deity of Pompeii. In this statue he shown to be holding a bow and arrow. This sculpture is thought to have come from a group of statues portraying his and Artemis’s destruction of the children of Niobe. Niobe, a mother of 14, criticized the two twins’ mother, Leto for bearing only the two children. Apollo and Artemis responded by killing all of Niobe’s 14 children. These statues would have served as a reminder to the Pompeian’s of the gods’ power over their everyday life.
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