Apollo and Marsyas

Anselmi, Michelangelo (ca. 1492-1556)


Item type:
painting
Date of creation:
ca. 1540
Height:
11.7 cm  (4 5/8 in.)
Width:
55.9 cm  (22 in.)
Technique / Medium:
oil on panel
Place of creation:
Parma

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    Samuel H. Cress Collection[Museum inv. no.: 1939.1.350]

Description

At right, Pallas Athena playing a bagpipe. Center, Apollo playing a lira da braccio. Left, Apollo flaying Marsyas, with a bagpipe and lira da braccio lying on the ground.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]
Lira da braccio [3181]
Bagpipe [3746]
Lira da braccio [3181]

RIdIM images


Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington

Image URLs

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National Gallery of Art image and description

Bibliographic references

Winternitz, Emanuel. "The curse of Pallas Athena: Notes on a `Contest between Apollo and Marsyas' in the Kress Collection", in: Studies in the history of art, dedicated to William E. Suida (London: Phaidon Press, 1959), 186-195.

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