Tiigra:
Versailles. Bassin de Latone. From Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Latona and her children, Apollo and Diana, are tormented with mud slung by Lycian peasants, who refused to let them drink from their pond. Latona appealed to Zeus.
Tiigra:
Versailles. Bassin d’Apollon (between 1668 and 1671) occupies the site of Rondeau/Bassin des Cygnes of Louis XIII, the Apollo Fountain depicts the sun god driving his chariot to light the sky.