Marsyas tied to a tree

Bandinelli, Baccio (1488-1560) (follower or school of)

Item type:

drawing

Date of creation:

ca. 1550

Height:

28.4 cm  (11 3/16 in.)

Width:

20.5 cm  (8 1/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

Pen and brown ink on ivory laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper, tipped onto gray card

Description

A bagpipe rests on the ground at the foot of a tree to which Marsyas is tied. A single drone, a chanter, and a mouthpiece are shown.

Iconclass

92L4226
(story of) Marsyas - suffering, misfortune

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Bagpipe [3746]

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) 2 (20dr64). RILM 1988-275.

RIdIM record id

2038