Sleeping Apollo with the muses dispersing and Fame fleeing

Lotto, Lorenzo (ca. 1480-1556)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1549
Height:
44.5 cm  (17 1/2 in.)
Width:
74.0 cm  (29 1/8 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on canvas

    Item location

  • Szépművészeti Múzeum
    [Museum inv. no.: 947]

Description

Scene includes Apollo holding a string instrument (possibly lira da braccio) and Fame as a winged figure holding a straight trumpet and shawm. On the ground are two end-blown wind instruments.

Iconclass

92B3731
Apollo and the Muses, Apollo Musagetes
96A5(FAMA)
Fama as Roman personification

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lira da braccio [3181]
End-blown trumpet [6556]
Shawm [4258]
Recorder [4039]
End-blown flute [3940]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

1040