A 16TH CENTURY ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF APOLLO the pose derived from the Apollo Belvedere, the standing figure with left arm outstretched, a quiver of arrows slung over his shoulder, on a base modelled with a tree stump, on a later plinth, the bronze 27cm high  Provenance: David Lascelles, 8th Earl of Harewood, until 2013. This bronze is characteristic of a taste for statuettes emulating antique Roman sculpture that developed in Renaissance Italy around 1500. The present figure was inspired by the Apollo Belvedere, an antique marble statue that was discovered in Rome in the early years of the 16th century. Placed in a niche in the Belvedere courtyard, the marble become one of the most famous works of antiquity.