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Allegorical illustration of Phaethon, son of Helios and the Oceanid Clymene, falling out of the sky while driving the Sun Chariot

6337443 Allegorical illustration of Phaethon, son of Helios and the Oceanid Clymene, falling out of the sky while driving the Sun Chariot by Cooper, Samuel (1609-72) (after); (add.info.: Allegorical illustration of Phaethon, son of Helios and the Oceanid Clymene, falling out of the sky while driving the Sun Chariot. The Fall of Phaeton. Frontispiece to Volume 39. Copperplate engraving by Scott after an illustration by Samuel Cooper fromThe Sporting Magazine, or Monthly Calendar of the Transactions of the Turf and the Chace, John Wheble, London, 1812.); © Florilegius

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Phaethon, 1615 (engraving)

3480547 Phaethon, 1615 (engraving) by Gaultier, Leonard (1561-1641); (add.info.: Phaethon (son of the Oceanid Clymene and the solar deity Helios). Plate from Les Images Ou Tableaux De Platte Peinture Des Deux Philostrates Sophistes Grecs, by Blaise de Vigenare, Paris, 1615. Engraving circa 1615, by Leonard Gaultier.); Universal History Archive/UIG; French, out of copyright

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Apollo, the Muses and Chronos, c1730, (1928). Artist: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Apollo, the Muses and Chronos, c1730, (1928). Design for a ceiling, pen with wash on paper. At one time known to have been in the collection of the Sartorio Collection, Trieste, Italy. Italian Venetian painter and printmaker Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. He was commissioned to carry out frescoes in churches and palaces, and was elected President of the Academy of Padua. As well as his large-scale majestic works, he also produced etchings and oil paintings, and is widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the period. Illustration from The Drawings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Volume I, by Detlev Baron Von Hadeln. [The Pegasus Press, Paris, 1928]

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