Apollino

Others argue it is an eclectic creation from the Roman era, mixing several styles from the "second classicism".

[6] Though it has since declined in reputation, it retained its praise through the 18th century, as one of the most copied Roman sculptures.

[7] It was seen in the Tribuna of the Uffizi by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who commented: It is difficult to conceive anything more delicately beautiful than the Ganymede; but the spirit-like lightness, the softness, the flowing perfection of [the Apollino's] forms, surpass it.

There is a womanish vivacity of winning yet passive happiness, and yet a boyish inexperience exceedingly delightful.

The neck is long yet full, and sustains the head with its profuse and knotted hair as if it needed no sustaining.In 1840 at the Uffizi it was broken by a painting falling on it[8] and was restored by Lorenzo Bartolini, who covered the whole statue with a layer of paint to disguise the repairs.