Painting by J. M. W. Turner
Apollo and Python is an 1811 oil painting by the English artist J.M.W. Turner.[1][2] A combination of landscape and history painting, It depicts the ancient Greek Myth of Python, a giant serpent in combat against Apollo.
It was displayed at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition at Somerset House.
Today the painting is in the collection of the Tate Britain in Pimlico, having been part of the Turner Bequest of 1856 [3]
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References
Bibliography
- Finley, Gerald. Angel in the Sun: Turner's Vision of History. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
- Hartley, Lucy. Democratising Beauty in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Art and the Politics of Public Life. Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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- Interior of a Romanesque Church (c. 1795–1800)
- Landscape with Windmill and Rainbow (c. 1795–1800)
- Diana and Callisto (c. 1796)
- Fishermen at Sea (1796)
- Interior of a Gothic Church (c. 1797)
- Limekiln at Coalbrookdale (c. 1797)
- Moonlight, a Study at Millbank (1797)
- Aeneas and the Sibyl, Lake Avernus (c. 1798)
- Buttermere Lake (1798)
- Caernarvon Castle (c. 1798)
- Morning amongst the Coniston Fells, Cumberland (1798)
- Shipping by a Breakwater (1798)
- Tivoli and the Roman Campagna (c. 1798)
- View of a Town (c. 1798)
- Dolbadarn Castle (1798–1799)
- Self-Portrait (c. 1799)
- View in Wales (c. 1799–1800)
- Welsh Mountain Landscape (c. 1799–1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies round a Campfire (c. 1800)
- A Beech Wood with Gypsies Seated in the Distance (c. 1800)
- Landscape with Lake and Fallen Tree (c. 1800)
- Dutch Boats in a Gale (1801)
- Ships Bearing Up for Anchorage (1802)
- Calais Pier (1803)
- View on Clapham Common (c. 1800–1805)
- The Shipwreck (1805)
- Windsor Castle from the Thames (1805)
- Walton Bridges (1806)
- A Country Blacksmith (1807)
- Sun Rising through Vapour (1807)
- Two Captured Danish Ships Entering Portsmouth Harbour (1807)
- View of Richmond Hill and Bridge (1808)
- The Garreteer's Petition (1809)
- London from Greenwich Park (1809)
- Ploughing Up Turnips (1809)
- The Fifth Plague of Egypt (1810)
- High Street, Oxford (1810)
- Apollo and Python (1811)
- Saltash with the Water Ferry (1811)
- Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
- Frosty Morning (1813)
- Dido and Aeneas (1814)
- Dido building Carthage (1815)
- Crossing the Brook (1815)
- The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
- Dort or Dordrecht (1818)
- The Field of Waterloo (1818)
- Richmond Hill (1819)
- Entrance of the Meuse (1819)
- Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
- The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
- The Bay of Baiae (1823)
- The Harbour of Dieppe (1825)
- Cologne (1826)
- Forum Romanum (1826)
- Mortlake Terrace (1826)
- Port Ruysdael (1826)
- The Chain Pier, Brighton (1828)
- Chichester Canal (1828)
- East Cowes Castle (1828)
- Regulus (1828)
- View of Orvieto (1828)
- The Loretto Necklace (1829)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- The Evening Star (1830)
- Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
- Pilate Washing his Hands (1830)
- Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831)
- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage - Italy (1832)
- The Prince of Orange Landing at Torbay (1832)
- The Fountain of Indolence (1834)
- The Golden Bough (1834)
- Venice: The Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore (1834).
- St Michael's Mount, Cornwall (1834)
- The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons (1835)
- Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight (1835)
- Line Fishing, Off Hastings (1835)
- Rome, From Mount Aventine (1835)
- Venice, from the Porch of Madonna della Salute (c. 1835)
- Juliet and her Nurse (1836)
- The Fighting Temeraire (1838)
- Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
- The Slave Ship (1840)
- Venice, the Bridge of Sighs (1840)
- Venice from the Giudecca (1840)
- Snow Storm: Steam-Boat off a Harbour's Mouth (1842)
- The Blue Rigi (1842)
- The Red Rigi (1842)
- Peace – Burial at Sea (1842)
- War. The Exile and the Rock Limpet (1842)
- Light and Colour (1843)
- Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844)
- Sunrise with Sea Monsters (1845)
- Norham Castle, Sunrise (c. 1845)
- Seascape: Folkestone (c. 1845)
- Whalers (c. 1845)
- Queen Mab's Cave (1846)
- The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
- The Beacon Light (unknown)
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