In 1829, when royal gardener Hermann Sello designed the gardens of Charlottenhof Palace, he ordered a bronze cast of a famous statue in the Villa Medici, depicting the adolescent Greek god Apollo - the
Apollino.
Sello placed the copy at the stairs leading up to a small Greek-style temple.
In Greek and Roman mythology, Apollo is the god of music, poetry, truth and prophecy, healing, plague, the sun and light. He was also an oracular god and the patron of Delphi
Apollo - a son of Zeus and of titaness Leto - was the national divinity of all Greeks. He was one of the eleven gods living on Mount Olympus and he is the only Olympian god who carries the same name in both Greek and Roman mythology. |