# Apollo

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/apollo-r9d7ecc0e4c5060>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [TACCA, Ferdinando](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Bronze, 40 x 17 x 15 cm

## Commentary

Ferdinando Tacca is credited with an extensive series of small bronzes on mythological subjects. He is thought to have conceived his two-figure statuettes relatively early in his career, around 1640, when he inherited his father&#39;s workshop.

## Related artworks

- [Apollo and Daphne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/apollo-and-daphne-r4ca2924e42f2e5>)
- [Bireno and Olimpia](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/bireno-and-olimpia-r69266ac00be5b7>)
- [Christ Bearing the Cross](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/christ-bearing-the-cross-rec91a6643d347d>)
- [Fontana del Bacchino \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/fontana-del-bacchino-detail-rd1daee3d7b1f03>)
- [Fontana del Bacchino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/fontana-del-bacchino-r7f8704635f4709>)
- [Fontana del Bacchino](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/fontana-del-bacchino-rf86902786d01ff>)
- [Hercules and the Erymanthian Boar](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/hercules-and-the-erymanthian-boar-r0c7b3a6ebeae73>)
- [Infant angel with candelabra](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/infant-angel-with-candelabra-r8c903b9a3dff8f>)
- [Infant angel with candelabra](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/infant-angel-with-candelabra-rb44f7be3b9cf52>)
- [Putto Holding Shield to His Left](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/putto-holding-shield-to-his-left-r49abe5bef57e58>)
- [Putto Holding Shield to His Right](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/putto-holding-shield-to-his-right-r5a9c66837ad8db>)
- [Standing Child](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tacca-ferdinando-racee559ea4ae00/standing-child-r8da25c66c422e0>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)