Johann Michael Rottmayr
Apollo Granting Phaeton Permission to Drive the Chariot of the Sun
c. 1695
Johann Michael Rottmayr's 'Apollo Permits Phaeton to Drive the Sun Chariot' (c. 1700) is an Austrian High-Baroque allegory. The god grants his son the fatal boon — a warning against youthful pride — rendered in Rottmayr's swirling ceiling-painting idiom. Oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago