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Apollo and Diana Slay the Children of Niobe
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Apollo and Diana Slay the Children of Niobe

Philips Galle · 1557 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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In the clouds Apollo and Diana. With arrows they shoot the children of Niobe, who in her pride thought herself better than the divine twins. The ground is strewn with dead and dying children. Some try in vain to flee. The print has a Latin inscription above in a frame.

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Credit lineApollo en Diana doden de kinderen van Niobe. 1557. Philips Galle. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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