Apollo Fresco

Apollo FrescoA print of an Apollo fresco in the tradition of the Roman wall paintings recovered from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae. Apollo god of music, prophecy, light, and the arts of healing is rendered in the conventional Roman mode: youthful, long haired, lyre at hand, the laurel crown of Delphi somewhere nearby. Apollo was one of the most painted deities in Roman domestic art. He appears as musician, as healer, as the god of the Delphic oracle, and as the

cuts off Uranus's genitals and flings them into the sea

That fragmentary state is part of what makes it powerful as a subject for line drawing

The sculpture's realism is merciless and unheroic

Episteme (knowledge)

Antaeus was a son of Gaia (the earth) and Poseidon

the radial stairs

The stage wall still has its niches

a hunter of extraordinary beauty

the gods ordinary-looking but already

Sprung fully armed from the head of Zeus

torqued figure style that defined Dutch print design at the turn of the 17th century

The Dioscuri are among the most-repeated figures in European sculpture and coinage