Catete Palace Halls: the Noble Hall

The painting on the ceiling of the Great Hall represents the Gods of Olympus. The original work was damaged by infiltration, being replaced in 1938 by this one, by Armando Vianna, in a different style of the previous one.

To escape Apollo's harassment, Daphne pleads for help from her father, the river god Peneio, who transforms her into a laurel tree. Because of this, this tree came to be consecrated to Apollo.

Apollo punishes Telfusa for deceiving him and forcing him to face Python in Delphi, where he had gone at the suggestion of the nymph.​

Apollo kills the Cyclopes, who forged the beam that Jupiter, his father, used to kill his son, Aesculapius.​

One of Apollo's passions was Jacinto. Zephyrus, the god of the west wind, jealous that he also loved the young mortal, deflected a disc thrown by Apollo in order to kill the boy. Dismayed, Apollo turned the blood of his beloved into a flower, the hyacinth.'

After the mortal Niobe provokes Leto, mother of Apollo and Diana, for having produced more children than a goddess, the two brothers kill almost all of her children, leaving only two.​

Hercules sought the oracle of Delphi to cleanse himself from the death of Iphitus, but the temple priestess didn't answer him. Revolted, the demigod tried to destroy the temple of Apollo, who stopped him until they were separated by Jupiter's thunderbolt.”

The nine muses were part of Apollo's entourage. Some of them, like Talia, Calliope and Urania, even had children of the god.

There are several legends in which Apollo serves as a shepherd. In one of them, Apollo, after killing the Cyclopes, is forced by Jupiter to be a mortal's slave for a year. He then became shepherd of King Admetus, causing his flock to multiply under his guard.

One of Apollo's lovers. Not identified.​

Apollo guides the arrow of Paris that killed Achilles when it hit his heel during the Trojan War.​

Representation of the musical dispute between Apollo (center) and Pan (right). In this scene, Midas (left) receives an ass's ears, as a punishment from Apollo, for having judged the melody of Pan more beautiful than that of the god of music.​

Apollo murdered his wife Coronis for her infidelity and delivered their son Aesculapius. He transformed the raven that the god himself had designated to watch over his beloved for not having impeded her relationship with another.​

To defend their Mother, Leto, from the attack of the giant Titius, Apollo and Diana killed the giant with arrows.

Apollo served the king of Troy as punishment for conspiring against Jupiter and was one of those in charge of building the walls of that city.”

While looking for a place to establish his cult, Apollo arrived at Delphi, where he faced Python, a monstrous serpent. After defeating her, he established the Oracle of Delphi there and created the Pythian Games.”

Apollo and one of his loved ones, possibly Estilbe, another daughter of the river god Peneio.”