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.
| Apollo and Python | |
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| Artist | J. M. W. Turner |
| Year | 1811 |
| Type | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 237.5 cm × 145 4 cm (93.5 in × ??) |
| Location | Tate Britain, London |
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
- ^ Hartley p 104
- ^ Finley p 19
- ^ https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-apollo-and-python-n00488
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.
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