Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupid

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Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupid approaching Apollo, from the 'Story of Apollo and Daphne', 1530–60, Engraving, sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 5/8 in. ( x cm) approximately, Prints, Master of the Die (Italian, active Rome, ca. 1530–60), After Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Ancaiano 1481–1536 Rome), According to Ovid (Metamorphoses 1-444), Jupiter destroyed the violent race that arose from the blood of the Giants with a universal flood. When the waters receded, the monstrous Python emerged and was slain by Apollo, as seen in the foreground of this engraving

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