Apollo Slaying the Serpent also named Apollo Slays Python or The Triumph of Apollo is a painting made by Eugene Delacroix. As a Romanticist, Delacroix uses light and color to determine the good and evil. Apollo, the God of Sun, appears as bright warm colors and surrounded by light and other gods in the middle of the painting. The painting also can be understood as the sun drives away darkness. In his chariot, Apollo was using an arrow to shoot the serpent. The bottom part of the painting is dark, which shows the evilness of the serpent. 

Apollo Slaying the Serpent is a ceiling painting hang in Louvre. It has been transformed from a palace to a public art museum in the idea of "[art] is the property of the citizenry." Museums are modern inventions, created for political rather than aesthetic reason. The rulers believed by looking at the treasures of art can make people gain national heritage.