The Apollo of Piombino or the Piombino Boy is a famous Greek bronze statuette[2] in late Archaic style that depicts the god as a kouros or youth,[1] or it may be a worshipper bringing an offering.[3] The bronze is inlaid with copper for the boy's lips, eyebrows, and nipples. The eyes, which are missing, were of another material, perhaps bone or ivory.
- ^ a b "Piombino, Francesco", Benezit Dictionary of Artists, Oxford University Press, 2011-10-31, doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00142401, retrieved 2020-12-07
- ^ 1.15 m.
- ^ The latter suggestion is made, for example, by Jaś Elsner, "Reflections of the 'Greek Revolution' in art", in Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne, eds. Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece 2006:71; of the bronze ephebe found in the House of the Bronze Ephebe, and identified by Dorothy Kent Hill as having held a lamp (Hill, "Roman domestic garden sculpture", in Elisabeth B. MacDougall, et al., Ancient Roman Gardens 1981:89); Hill observes "today we can recognize many lamp-bearers of the same ephebe type", instancing the Apollo of Piombino first among others.