# The Chariot of Apollo [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RUBENS, Peter Paul]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on oak panel, 99 x 73 cm ## Commentary This sketch painted in oil on panel is Rubens' spirited interpretation of a ceiling fresco designed by Francesco Primaticcio for a room in the Galerie d'Ulysse at the royal château of Fontainebleau, now destroyed. Primaticcio's own design, which places Apollo's chariot directly above the head of the viewer, survives only in the form of a red chalk drawing preserved at the Louvre, Paris. The source of inspiration for this audacious di sotto in sù composition can be found in a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/g/giulio/1pala\_te/z\_other/3sole1.html'\)" href="/html/g/giulio/1pala\_te/z\_other/3sole1.html">ceiling painting</a> by Giulio Romano in the Camera del Sole e della Luna, a small room at Palazzo del Tè, Mantua. ## Related artworks - [A Forest at Dawn with a Deer Hunt]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Magi]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Albert and Nicolaas Rubens]() - [Alfonso d'Este, Duke of Ferrara]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() - [Allegorical Glorification of King James I]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()