# Design for Apollo [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Pencil, wash over black crayon, 207 x 163 mm ## Commentary Design for Apollo c. 1757 Pencil, wash over black crayon, 207 x 163 mm Victoria and Albert Museum, London This drawing is a study for the figure of Apollo painted on the wall of the room of the Olympian Gods in the Foresteria of the Villa Valmarana. In this room the primary Olympian gods, part of the standard canon of villa decoration since the sixteenth century, are depicted in larger and smaller groupings. Tiepolo prepared for the paintings in a series of spirited studies. ## Related artworks - [A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher]() - [Abraham and the Three Angels]() - [Abraham Praying before the Three Angels]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(detail\)]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(detail\)]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido]() - [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue \(detail\)]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue]() - [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()