Design for Ceiling Fresco: Apollo and the Muses with Minerva

An oval composition in pen and brown ink with gray wash shows multiple winged figures floating among billowing clouds. A figure with a radiant halo and a chariot-drawn horse group dominate the upper right, while a helmeted warrior figure and a crouching figure appear in the lower center.

Artist

James Thornhill

Date

n.d.

Medium

Pen and brown ink with brush and gray wash, over black chalk and graphite, on tan laid paper, partially laid down

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1383 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection