Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupid approaching Apollo, from the 'Story of Apollo and Daphne', 1530–60, Engraving, sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. (18.1 x 24.4 cm) approximately, Prints, Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530–60), After Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Ancaiano 1481–1536 Rome), According to Ovid (Metamorphoses 1-444), Jupiter destroyed the violent race that arose from the blood of the Giants with a universal flood. When the waters receded, the monstrous Python emerged and was slain by Apollo, as seen in the foreground of this engraving
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Apollo standing, left shooting, python, arrow, left, muses, right, cloud Cupid approaching Apollo, Story, Apollo, Daphne, 1530–60, Engraving, sheet, 7 1/8 x 9 5/8, 18.1 24.4 cm, approximately, Prints, Master of the Die, Italian, active Rome, ca., After Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi, Ancaiano, 1481–1536, Rome, According, Ovid, Metamorphoses 1-444, Jupiter destroyed, violent race, arose, blood, Giants, universal flood, waters receded, monstrous Python emerged, slain, foreground, engraving
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