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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]
- 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: Mountain Scene with Village and Castle – Evening (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)
- Walton Bridges (1806)
- 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)
- Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812)
- Frosty Morning (1813)
- Dido building Carthage, or, The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire (1815)
- Crossing the Brook (1815)
- The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire (1817)
- Dort or Dordrecht: The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818)
- The Field of Waterloo (1818)
- England: Richmond Hill, on the Prince Regent's Birthday (1819)
- Rome, from the Vatican (1820)
- The Battle of Trafalgar (1822)
- The Bay of Baiae (1823)
- Cologne, the Arrival of a Packet Boat in the Evening (1826)
- Forum Romanum (1826)
- Mortlake Terrace (1826)
- Port Ruysdael (1826)
- Chichester Canal (1828)
- East Cowes Castle (1828)
- Regulus (1828)
- Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus (1829)
- Funeral of Sir Thomas Lawrence (1830)
- 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)
- 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 Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken up (1838)
- Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino (1839)
- Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On) (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 (Goethe's Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses Writing the Book of Genesis (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)
- The Departure of the Fleet (1850)
- The Beacon Light (unknown)
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