Apollo and Marsyas

Vaccaro, Domenico Antonio (1678-1745)

Item type:

sculpture

Date of creation:

ca. 1720

Height:

97.7 cm  (38 7/16 in.)

Width:

81.2 cm  (32 in.)

Technique / Medium:

marble

Description

Apollo holding an object that may be a lyre.

Iconclass

92B3412
contest between Apollo and Marsyas; the Muses acting as judges

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Lyre [3501]

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Owens, Margareth Boyer. Art Institute of Chicago. RIdIM/RCMI inventory of music iconography, no. 2. Edited by Terence Ford (New York: Research Center for Musical Iconography, 1987) 4 (70sc74). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

2016