# Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [HOLBEIN, Hans the Younger]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen in black, over traces of black pencil, with gray, blue, and brown wash, 421 x 384 mm ## Commentary The eve of Anne Boleyn's coronation on June l, 1533, was celebrated with a festive procession in London. To pay their respects to the new queen, the members of the German Steelyard in London had a display erected, on the basis of a design by Holbein, representing Mount Parnassus, on which Apollo sat in stately splendour under a baldacchino in the company of the Muses. The reports of various eyewitnesses survive, who were particularly impressed that the Helicon spring was a fountain from which real Rhine wine flowed until evening. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve]() - [Charitas]() - [Charles Brandon]() - [Christ as the True Light]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan \(detail\)]() - [Christina of Denmark, Ducchess of Milan]() - [Courtier of Henry VIII and his Wife]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna \(detail\)]() - [Darmstadt Madonna]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()