Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Chariot Horses (of the Gods) - 1500-1900

workshop of Perino del Vaga
Apollo driving the Chariot of the Sun
ca. 1519-21
drawing
Art Institute of Chicago

Girolamo Romanino
Phaethon driving the Horses of the Sun
1531-32
fresco
Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento

Lelio Orsi
Apollo driving the Chariot of the Sun, with Aurora
before 1587
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Paolo Farinati
Neptune in his Chariot
before 1606
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Paolo Farinati
Neptune in his Chariot
before 1606
drawing
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Guido Reni
Apollo in the Sun Chariot
ca. 1614
drawing
Albertina, Vienna

Gérard de Lairesse
Apollo in his Chariot, with Aurora
1671
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Luca Giordano
Apollo in his Chariot
ca. 1685
oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Cosmas Damian Asam
Apollo in his Chariot
1730
drawing
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf

Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier
Chariot of Apollo
(ceiling design for Count Bielinski's Cabinet, Warsaw)
1734
watercolor and gouache
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Francesco Fontebasso
Design for a Fountain with Neptune and his Chariot
ca. 1740-60
drawing
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

William Blake
God in his Fiery Chariot judging Adam
1795
hand-colored relief etching
Tate Gallery

Anonymous Makers after Guercino
Aurora in her Chariot
(based on a ceiling painting in the Casino dell' Aurora, Villa Boncompagni-Ludovisi, Rome)
ca. 1821
tapestry
Hermitage, Saint Petersburg

Adolphe David
Fall of Phaeton
ca. 1850-75
sardonyx cameo
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Odilon Redon
Chariot of Apollo - Fall of Phaeton
1897
pastel
Musée d'Orsay, Paris