the apollo belvedere

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the apollo belvedere - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Apollo \A*pol"lo\, n. [L. Apollo, -linis, Gr. ?.] (Classic
     Myth.)
     A deity among the Greeks and Romans. He was the god of light
     and day (the "sun god"), of archery, prophecy, medicine,
     poetry, and music, etc., and was represented as the model of
     manly grace and beauty; -- called also Ph['e]bus.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     The Apollo Belvedere, a celebrated statue of Apollo in the
        Belvedere gallery of the Vatican palace at Rome, esteemed
        of the noblest representations of the human frame.
        [1913 Webster] Apollonian