Apollo - World History Encyclopedia
2019年7月25日 · Apollo was a Greek god associated with the bow, music, and divination. The epitome of youth and beauty, source of life and healing, patron of the arts, and as bright and powerful as the sun itself...
Apollo | Facts, Symbols, Powers, & Myths | Britannica
2024年11月21日 · In art, Apollo was represented as a beardless youth, either naked or robed. He was also often depicted with one or both of his two main attributes: a bow and a lyre. The bow symbolized distance, death, terror, and awe, while the lyre more gently proclaimed the joy of communion with Olympus through music, poetry, and dance.
Apollo - Wikipedia
One of the most important and complex of the Greek gods, he is the son of Zeus and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis, goddess of the hunt. He is considered to be the most beautiful god and is represented as the ideal of the kouros (ephebe, or a beardless, athletic youth). Apollo is known in Greek-influenced Etruscan mythology as Apulu. [3]
Apollo: God of Arts and Crafts - The Hunt Museum
2021年8月18日 · Explore the social and cultural background of one of the Hunt Museum’s star objects: Apollo as Genius of the Arts. This striking 17th century object was carved in Germany from limewood. It was originally polychromatic but little of the original colouring remains. It represents the Greek god Apollo, one of the 12 gods of Olympus.
Apollo: God of music, poetry, art, oracles, archery, plague, medicine ...
2015年4月2日 · Apollo, the national divinity of the Greeks, was of course represented in all the ways which arts were capable of. As the ideas of the god became gradually and more and more fully developed, his representations in works of art rose from a rude wooden image to the perfect ideal of youthful manliness.
APOLLO (Apollon) - Greek God of Music, Prophecy & Healing
Apollo was the ancient Greek god of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease, and the protection of the young. He was depicted as a handsome, beardless youth with long hair and attributes such as a wreath and branch of laurel, bow and quiver of arrows, raven, and lyre.
Apollo son of Zeus and Leto — Google Arts & Culture
This gallery shows representations of the Greek god Apollo and his corresponding Roman god in paintings and sculptures. Apollo is the god of music, poetry, art, oracles, archery,...
Paintings of Apollo - Wikimedia Commons
2023年3月25日 · Apollo Kitharoidos, painted plaster, Roman artwork from the Augustan period, from the Scalae Caci on the Palatine Hill, Palatine Museum, Rome
Apollo Driving the Chariot of the Sun - The Art Institute of Chicago
As the heroic sun god Apollo drives his four-horse chariot (the semicircle of the sun directly behind him), Aurora, goddess of the dawn, strews flowers in his path, announcing his—and the new day’s—arrival.
Apollo - Greek & Roman God of Sun, Music, Light and Knowledge ...
2016年12月8日 · Who Is Apollo? Apollo was god of many things, making him one of the more important gods in Greek mythology. He was the god of poetry, art, archery, plague, sun, light, knowledge and music. He was born on the island of Delos and had a twin sister named Artemis. He was also an oracular god and a patron of Delphi.