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Description: | Giambattista Tiepolo's depiction of the story of Phaeton is taken from the second book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Time hurries Phaeton, son of the god Apollo, to drive the chariot of the sun across the heavens, observed by personifications of the Four Seasons. A later episode in which Phaeton falls from the sky after loosing control of his horses, was often depicted on the ceilings of palatial buildings, such as the Milanese Palazzo Archinto where Tiepolo worked in the 1730s. | Subjects: | mythology (Apollo Metamorphoses) Phaeton); literature (Ovid | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter and draftsman, 1696-1770) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9001... | Go to resource |
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