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Description: | Signed: yes Description: Apollo was the sun god who was all-seeing and all-knowing. He played a central role in Roman mythology. In works such as this one he is given an allegorical significance representing knowledge and learning. This detailed image shows him with the tools of the arts and sciences at his feet. Behind, the artist reveals scholars at work inside a university while the right-hand view depicts ornate gardens. The nine figures seated around a statue of Pegasus are the nine Muses which often featured in Apollonian iconography. The work was once paired with a painting of Diana the moon goddess. | Subjects: | mythology (Apollo and the Muses); allegory (learning) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Floris, Frans, the elder (Flemish painter and printmaker, ca. 1519-1570) Æ Attributed to manner of Previously attributed to Toeput, Lodewijk (Flemish painter and printmaker, ca. 1550-ca. 1605, active in Italy) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8501... | Go to resource |
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