Apollo, the muses, and Mars: In praise of Tasso

Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista (1682-1754)


Item type:
drawing
Date of creation:
ca. 1740-1745
Height:
42.5 cm  (16 3/4 in.)
Width:
29.9 cm  (11 3/4 in.)
Technique / Medium:
black chalk on paper

    Item location

  • National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1981.65.1]

Description

Fame holding a straight trumpet; Apollo playing lyre; one Muse holding a wind instrument (possibly shawm); another playing mandolin.

People as subjects

Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)

Iconclass

92B3731
Apollo and the Muses, Apollo Musagetes

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

End-blown trumpet [6556]
Lyre [3501]
Wind instruments [3730]
Mandolin [3510]

RIdIM images


Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

4062