The seven-foot-tall Apollo Belvedere is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek statue. Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble ...

The Apollo Belvedere—chiseled in the second century, excavated from a ruin over a millennium later, and installed at the Vatican in the early 16th century—has come to be regarded as the epitome of ...