Most Balanchine ballets are high poetry; but the creation of poetic art is the very subject matter of “Apollo.” Most myths of Apollo show him as fully divine, the mature god of music and the arts.

Anatomy of a masterpiece Here's a closer look at the Cleveland Museum of Art's "Apollo Sauroktonos." Subject: The sculpture depicts the adolescent Apollo, the ancient Greek god of light ...

Apollo is the god of the sun. He also presides over music, dance, poetry, and all things arty. How perfect, then, that the image of Apollo is the centerpiece of artist Jeff Koons’s multisensory ...

“Of all the works of antiquity that escaped destruction,” German archaeologist and art historian Johann Joachim Winckelmann once said of the Apollo Belvedere ... Greek god of light, poetry ...

Stefano Costantino / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images The Vatican’s famous Apollo Belvedere—a marble statue of the Greek god of archery ... highest ideal of art,” Johann ...