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Apollo Belvedere
The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Pythian Apollo or Apollo of the Belvedere) is a celebrated marble sculpture from Classical Antiquity. 
The "Apollo" is now thought to be a Roman copy of Hadrianic date ("ca." 120–140) of a lost bronze original made between 350 and 325 BC by the Greek sculptor Leochares. It was rediscovered in central Italy in the late 15th century during the Italian Renaissance and was placed on semi-public display in the Vatican Palace in 1511, where it remains
to the Apollo Belvedere and the Laocoön.
Life Later years.
Rossi owned a large house in Lisson Grove. By 1817 his prosperity had declined, and he rented out part of it to the painter Benjamin Robert Haydon, who was then temporarily solvent. Haydon was to remain Rossi's tenant until his imprisonment for debt in 1823. In 1818 he went into partnership with his former student J. G. Bubb to provide a large number of sculptures for the new Customs House in London for which they used a composition material of their