Phaeton Driving the Chariot of Phoebus

A late fifteenth-century Northern Italian tempera painting shows a youth in a flaming chariot drawn by white horses across a dark sky, above a walled town. Below, classical-looking women, dogs, a seated woman with a child, and a figure in yellow robes stand in a hilly landscape.

Artist

Northern Italian

Date

1475–1500

Medium

Tempera or distemper on canvas

Source

Art Institute of Chicago

Size

1686 × 1707 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Art Institute of Chicago, George F. Harding Collection