Plate 9: Apollo Killing Python (Python ab Apolline interficitur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
Antonio Tempesta
1606
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 in. × 4 5/8 in. (10.2 × 11.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.3860
Tags
Bow and ArrowApolloMythical CreaturesHorsesChariots
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...