Apollo rächt seine Schwester Diana und tötet die Töchter der Niobe, aus dem verlorenen Niobidenfries an der Fassade des Palazzo Milesi in Rom, 1656

Title

Apollo rächt seine Schwester Diana und tötet die Töchter der Niobe, aus dem verlorenen Niobidenfries an der Fassade des Palazzo Milesi in Rom

Draughtsman

• style of Polidoro da Caravaggio

Inventor

• after Polidoro da Caravaggio
• after Giovanni Battista Galestruzzi ?

Part Number / Total

8 / 9

Period Produced

• 16th century
• 17th century

School

• High Renaissance

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• ink?
• Indian ink?
• opaque white?
• paper

Technique

• pen drawing
• washing
• white heightening

Geographic Reference

• Roman
• Florentine

Production Reason

• Pictorial drawing
• study after a mural painting?
• study after an etching?

Captions Added Later

Verso unten links Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356), mit zugehöriger Inventarnummer

Watermark

• Nicht geprüft

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• historical narration
• mythological representation

Persons Shown

• Apollo

Primary

• 95B(NIOBE)621 the sons of Niobe, who were mounting their horses, die by the darts of Apollo

Historic Attribution

• Polidoro da Caravaggio draughtsman