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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 [[Snake|serpent]] in combat against [[Apollo]].
'''''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 [[Snake|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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==Bibliography==
==Bibliography==
* Finley, Gerald. ''Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History''. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
* 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.
* Hartley, Lucy. ''Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life''. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Apollo and Python oil painting by the English artist J.M.W. Turner .[ 1] [ 2] 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]
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.
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