Editing Helios (section)

=== In painting ===
[[File:Le_chateau_de_versailles_le_jardin_35.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.35|Apollo fountain in the [[Palace of Versailles]], [[France]].]]

Helios/Sol had little independent identity and presence during the [[Renaissance]], where the main solar gods were Apollo, [[Bacchus]] and [[Hercules]].<ref name=":bull">Bull, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOGwFFb3PIcC&pg=PT330 330]</ref><ref>Bull, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=aOGwFFb3PIcC&pg=PT352 352]</ref> In post-antiquity art, Apollo assimilates features and attributes of both classical Apollo and Helios, so that Apollo, along with his own iconography, is many times depicted as driving the four-horse chariot, representing both of them.<ref name=":imp23">Impelluso, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9eFjTRNwrwQC&pg=PA23 23]</ref> In medieval tradition, each of the four horses had its own distinctive colour; in the Renaissance, however, all four are shown as white.<ref name=":imp23"/><ref>Hall, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oR-yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA66 66]</ref> In [[Versailles]], a gilded statue depicts Apollo as the god of the sun, driving his quadriga as he sinks in the ocean;<ref>Cosgrove, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=drW-Q7_RxcIC&pg=PA168 168]</ref> Apollo in this regard represents the king of [[France]], ''le roi-soleil'', "the Sun King".<ref name=":hall">Hall, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oR-yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA27 27]</ref>

[[File:Diego Velázquez 013.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|right|''[[Apollo in the Forge of Vulcan]]'', by [[Diego de Velázquez]], oil on canvas.]]

[[File:Guido Reni - L'Aurora di Guido Reni nelle arti decorative.jpg|thumb|left|350px|''Aurora'', by Guido Reni, 1613–14, ceiling fresco ([[Casino dell'Aurora]], [[Rome]]).]]

Additionally to the chariot, Apollo is often drawn with a solar halo around his head and depicted in scenes of Helios' mythology.<ref>Impelluso, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9eFjTRNwrwQC&pg=PA24 24]</ref><ref name=":hall"/> Accordingly, in depictions of Phaethon meeting his father and asking him the privilege of driving the sun chariot, artists gave to Phaethon's father the appearance and attributes of Apollo.<ref>Hall, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=oR-yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA252 252]</ref><ref>Seydle, p. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_h82AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA33 33]</ref>