Apollo and Marsyas

Veronese, Paolo (1528-1588) (attributed to)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
late 16th century
Height:
29.5 cm  (11 5/8 in.)
Width:
43.0 cm  (16 15/16 in.)
Technique / Medium:
brush and brown ink with white wash heightened with white over black chalk, on blue laid paper
Place of creation:
Venezia (Italia)

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1973.48.2]

Description

Apollo flaying Marsyas; viola da gamba and syrinx (five pipes) lying on ground.

Iconclass

92B34121
punishment of Marsyas: he is flayed by Apollo

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Viola da gamba [3604]
Syrinx [4084]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

3986