Le défi des Piérides

Rosso Fiorentino (1494-1540) (style copy of)

Chauveau, François (1613-1676)


Item type:
print
Date of creation:
17th century

Additional titles

The challenge of the Pierides

    Item location

  • Bibliothèque Nationale de France
    [Museum inv. no.: VMPHOTMIRI-4(73)]

Description

Group of Muses, one playing tambourine, one playing lyre, one holding a wind instrument, and one playing a stringed instrument, with a group of 12-13 other female mythological figures in a crowd and a group of 15 males in a crowd (most likely human). In Ovid's Metamorphoses, the Pierides challenge the Muses to a contest in poetry. When the Muses win the contest, the Pierides refuse to accept defeat and want to attack the Muses. Apollo punishes them by transforming them into magpies.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Tambourine [2746]
Lyre [3501]
Wind instruments [3730] (A fantastic double-piped instrument)
Stringed instruments [3101] (A fantastic stringed instrument)
Stringed instruments [3101] (A fantastic stringed instrument)
Shawm [4258]

Image URLs

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RIdIM record id

1369