Apollo

A powerful, nude figure with hair resembling flickering flames stands amidst a swirl of clouds. He holds a scepter in his raised hand while his musical instrument, the lyre, rests by his heel. In the background to the left, the sun chariot pulled by four horses emerges from a bank of clouds, representing the dawn of the day.

This print belongs to a series of planetary deities and reflects the Renaissance Neoplatonic view of the Sun as the 'heart' and intellectual center of the cosmos. The Sun was frequently used as a metaphor for divine light and the source of all vital heat in both alchemical and astrological systems.