Apollo heads over to Staffs saleroom
Dominating a grand lecture hall of one of France’s oldest universities is a classical fresco of the god Apollo and the Muses on Parnasses, created at the turn of the 20th century by French artist Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret (1852-1929).
A pencil and pastel study depicting the youthful head of Apollo wearing his famous laurel wreath w…