Apollo Slaying Python, plate one from The History of Apollo and Daphne

A nude male archer with a laurel wreath draws a bow toward a serpent at lower right, while Cupids float on clouds above and small figures gather in a wooded landscape at upper left. Verses in Italian run along the bottom edge of this black-ink engraving on ivory paper.

Artist

Master of the Die

Date

c. 1532

Medium

Engraving in black on ivory laid paper

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

843 × 1140 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections