Apollo and Poseidon Punishing Troy by FIAMMINGO, Paolo

FIAMMINGO, Paolo

(b. ca. 1540, Antwerpen, d. 1596, Venezia)

	Apollo and Poseidon Punishing Troy c. 1590 Oil on canvas, 118 x 100 cm Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest
This recently discovered painting (on loan to the Szépmûvészeti Múzeum, Budapest from a private collection) is the only known sixteenth-century representation of the theme. The story is related by both Homer (in the Iliad) and Ovid (in the Metamorphoses).