life-imitates-art-far-more:Briton Rivière (1840-1920)“Apollo” (1874)Oil on canvas Located in the Bur
life-imitates-art-far-more:Briton Rivière (1840-1920)“Apollo” (1874)Oil on canvas Located in the Bury Art Museum, Bury, Greater Manchester, EnglandThe painting illustrates the lines spoken by the chorus in the play “Alcestis” by Euripides. The lines are:“Apollo’s self Deigned to become a shepherd in thine hallsAnd tune his lays along the woodland slopesWhereat entranced the spotted lynxes came,To mingle with thine flocks; from Othry’s glenTrooped tawny lions; e’en the dappled faunForth from the shelter of her pinewood hauntsTripped to the music of the Sun-God’s lyre.” -- source link