Dance to the Music of Time (by Nicholas Poussin) Tile

This design features artwork by the French Baroque painter (1594–1665). It is a scene inspired by classical Greek myth. There are four figures holding hands and dancing: four of them are female and the one at the back appears to be male. An old man with wings on his back is playing a lyre on the right: he symbolises the passage of time. Aurora, the goddess of dawn, can be seen in the sky, flying in front of the chariot of Apollo, the sun-god; he is holding a ring representing the Zodiac. The original artwork was painted between about 1634 and 1636 as a commission for Giulio Rospigliosi, who later became Pope Clement IX.