Legend has it that Pope Julius II requested that Michelangelo complete the statue fragment with arms, legs and a face. He respectfully declined, stating that it was too beautiful to be altered, and instead used it as the inspiration for the majority of the figures in the Sistine Chapel, including, but not limited to, the Sibyls and Prophets bordering the ceiling. The Belvedere Torso remains one of the few ancient sculptures admired in the 17th and 18th centuries whose reputation has not suffered in modern times.
The Trojan priest Laocoon and his sons Antiphantes
and Thymbraeus being strangled by sea serpents.
This sculptural grouping was found in Rome in 1506 in the ruins of Titus' palace.
Statue of Neptune
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