Apollo killing Python (Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 438ff.)

Apollo killing Python (Ovid, Metamorphoses, I, 438ff.)

Unknown

1625

unspecified

From the collection of National Museum in Warsaw

About this work

This painting shows a young man in a red cape and blue tunic, holding a bow and arrow. He is standing on a dirt path, facing a large snake with wings. The snake is pink and has sharp teeth. The young man is wearing brown boots and has a quiver of arrows on his back. The background of the painting is a landscape with trees and hills. The sky is cloudy and gray.

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