print
- Museum number
- 1972,U.184.12
- Title
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Object: Apollo Pythonem sagittis conficit
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Series: Villa Aldobrandina Tusculana sive varii illius hortorum et frontium prospectus
- Description
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Plate 12: Apollo slaying Python, after a fresco designed by Domenichino for the villa Aldobrandini; the Sun god seen hovering in the air and drawing his bow while below Python, depicted here as a dragon, stares at him and snarls; a landscape stretches in the distance. 1647
Etching
- Production date
- 1647
- Dimensions
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Height: 297 millimetres
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Width: 148 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1972,U.184.1 for comment on the series.
The painting is part of a series of frescoes executed by Domenichino and his assistants in the Stanza di Apollo in the garden pavilion of the Villa Aldobrandini. In this particular case it is believed Domenichino only did the figures while the landscape was executed by Viola.
While many of the frescoes are now in the National Gallery, "Apollo slaying Python" can still be seen in situ in Frascati. For Domenichino's frescoes see Spear, 'Domenichino', 1982, vol. I, cat. No.51. This scene is Spear 51.ii.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753-1972
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1972,U.184.12