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Diana and Apollo piercing with their arrows the children of Niobe
StyleNeoclassicism
GenreMythological
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Jacques-Louis David executed this Diana and Apollo killing the children of Niobe. The gods punish Niobe for boasting that her children surpassed theirs in beauty, raining arrows upon them.
This mythological subject shows David's Neoclassical training. It's at the Dallas Museum of Art.
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About Diana and Apollo piercing with their arrows the children of Niobe
You can see it at Dallas Museum of Art in Dallas, United States. Jacques-Louis David created it. The gods punish Niobe for boasting that her children surpassed theirs in beauty, raining arrows upon them.
Jacques-Louis David, the French Neoclassical painter You can see it at Dallas Museum of Art. The gods punish Niobe for boasting that her children surpassed theirs in beauty, raining arrows upon them.
The children of Niobe were killed by Apollo and Diana after their mother boasted of having more children than the goddess Leto. David painted this Greek tragedy in rigorous Neoclassical style.
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