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The Greek sun god Apollo tumbles from the sky to shoot his unfaithful lover, Coronis. This is one of ten frescoes which originally adorned the walls of a room in a garden pavilion in the grounds of the Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati, near Rome. Many of the stories, including this one, were taken from the Roman poet Ovid's Metamorphoses. Eight of them were transferred to canvas and are now in our collection.The iconography was designed both to glorify the Aldobrandini family and to express their philosophical and religious ideas. Apollo was not just the god of the sun, music, poetry and art, but by extension the light of reason, and the frescoes express the triumph of reason.Although Domenichino's preparatory drawings for this scene survive, by the time work began on the fresco he was busy with other projects, and much of the actual painting was left to assistants.

Apollo slaying Coronis

Domenichino (1581–1641) (and assistants)

The National Gallery, London

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