Apollo and Diana
John Flaxman (English, 1755-1826)
n.d.
- Medium
- Pen and black ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, laid down on tan wove paper
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- 21.4 × 28.9 cm (8 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Culture
- England
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Sidney A. Kent Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
These are preparatory drawings for illustrations of Alexander Pope's translations of Homer. The conjunction of Flaxman and Pope presents the essence of English neoclassicism: Flaxman was one of its most influential artists; Pope perhaps its central poet. In these drawings, the severe economy of means and the predominant use of outline reflect the visual and moral austerity of the neoclassical aesthetic.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
