**Belvedere Torso**
The Vatican Museums, Museo Pio-Clementino.
Marble.
The **Belvedere Torso** is a fragmentary marble sculpture of a nude male. The base on which the torso sits is signed "Apollonius, son of Nestor, Athenian".
The Torso was drawn and admired by many Renaissance and Baroque artists, including Michelangelo.
An 18th Century engraving of the Torso:
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Belvederetorso.jpg)