The Fall of Phaethon, after Michelangelo c.1600-1650

Engraving | RCIN 830378

Description

An engraving after Michelangelo's 'presentation drawing' (RCIN 912766), copying in reverse Beatrizet's engraving RCIN 830373/4. The youth, chariot and 4 horses falling from sky; Zeus above astride eagle, arm raised with thunderbolt; below: 3 Heliades in attitudes of lamentation, the river god reclining; the background altered, small building only to L, no tree to R.
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Creator(s)

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(engraver)

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(artist)
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Engraving

engraving
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Category
General Subject Prints
Object type(s)
visual works
prints
Subject(s)
Religion & Theology
Religions and faiths
Religions of antiquity
Classical mythology
Zeus (Greek deity)

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