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Apollo Kills the Giant Snake Python, after Ovid's Metamorphoses, 1590

  • burin engraving, paper
  • 177 x 254 mm
  • Inv. 2014-MK-5

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Apollo kills the giant snake Python (depicted here more like a dragon, with legs) with many arrows.

Artist

Hendrick Goltzius RKD
Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617
workshop / studio

Hendrick Goltzius RKD
Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617
after

Willem Hessels van Elst
Gorinchem 1542 - Douai 1613
authorAAT

Hendrick Goltzius RKD
Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617
publisherAAT

Title Apollo Kills the Giant Snake Python, after Ovid's Metamorphoses
Date 1590
Period 16th century
Location Haarlem TGN
Medium and support burin engraving AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings printed inscription outside the depiction, bottom left: 13
printed inscription outside the depiction, left middle: Immensum certis stravit Pythona sagittis/ Nec meruit minimum Cynthius arte decus,
printed inscription outside the depiction, centre right: Latone matri monstrum Junonis ob iram/ Et terra infestum dum necat atq. mari.
inscription at the back, top: 69
inscription: 13.
Collection print room
Object type burin engraving AAT
Inventory number 2014-MK-5
Acquisition credit unknown
2014
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MK-5
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11686/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300417629 mythologies (religious concept) AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT
300263554 animal paintings AAT
300015636 landscapes AAT
Keywords Iconclass 12F13 representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes etc. (Roman religion) Iconclass
25F animals Iconclass
25F42 snakes Iconclass
25FF411 dragon Iconclass
48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
83(OVID, Metamorphoses) (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass
9 Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass
92 gods ~ classical mythology Iconclass
12E13 representations ~ gods, demi-gods, heroes, etc. (Greek religion) Iconclass
25FF41 fabulous animals ~ lizards Iconclass
25FF411(+0) dragon (+ variant) Iconclass
92B3 (story of) Apollo (Phoebus) Iconclass
92B342 Apollo shoots Python, the dragon Iconclass
School / Style Renaissance AAT
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