The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer

Praxiteles, -400, Cleveland Museum of Art

‘The Cleveland Apollo: Apollo Sauroktonos (Lizard-Slayer) or Apollo the Python-Slayer’ is a work by Praxiteles (394 BC–329 BC). It is dated 400 BC. It is part of the collection Cleveland Museum of Art.

It is made of bronze. It is 150 cm high. The work belongs to the genre nude. The things depicted include Apollo, teenager, nudity, and navel.

• Praxiteles