0174ApolloSunGod

0174ApolloSunGod_deLaFosse

ChateauVersailles.fr website
Ovid Met.1.750-2.400

Charles de La Fosse, "Apollo in a Chariot Pulled by Horses (or "The Rising of the Sun")," ceiling painting Salon d'Apollon, Appartement du Roi, Château de Versailles, 1670s.

J. Girard, Versailles Gardens: sculpture and mythology (Vendome: New York and Paris, 1985).

Ornate Baroque ceiling fresco depicting mythological scenes and allegories, featuring a central oval painting surrounded by gilded frames and additional panels

Louis XIV: "Never has anyone ... so clearly established the striking parallel between king and sun." Girard p. 189

The ceremonial bedchamber of the king, the last room in the "private" apartments and the one where the court would greet the king, has this painting on the ceiling. Apollo begins his day and surges into the future.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.