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'''''Apollo and Python''''' is an 1811 [[oil painting]] by the English [[artist]] [[J.M.W. Turner]].<ref>Hartley p 104</ref> <ref>Finley p 19</ref> A combination of [[landscape painting|landscape]] and [[history painting]], It depicts the ancient [[Greek Mythology|Greek Myth]] of [[Python (mythology)|Python]], a giant [[serpent]].
'''''Apollo and Python''''' is an 1811 [[oil painting]] by the English [[artist]] [[J.M.W. Turner]].<ref>Hartley p 104</ref> <ref>Finley p 19</ref> A combination of [[landscape painting|landscape]] and [[history painting]], It depicts the ancient [[Greek Mythology|Greek Myth]] of [[Python (mythology)|Python]], a giant [[serpent]] in combat against [[Apollo]].


It was displayed at the [[Royal Academy]]'s [[Summer Exhibition]] at [[Somerset House]]>
It was displayed at the [[Royal Academy]]'s [[Summer Exhibition]] at [[Somerset House]]>

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Apollo and Python
ArtistJ. M. W. Turner
Year1811
TypeOil on canvas
Dimensions237.5 cm × 145 4 cm (93.5 in × ??)
LocationTate Britain, London

Apollo and Python is an 1811 oil painting by the English artist J.M.W. Turner.[1] [2] A combination of landscape and history painting, It depicts the ancient Greek Myth of Python, a giant serpent in combat against Apollo.

It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition at Somerset House> Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856 [3]

See also

References

Bibliography

  • Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
  • Hartley, Lucy. Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life. Cambridge University Press, 2017.