Pan playing the flute and a nymph

Scultori, Adamo (ca. 1530-1585)

Romano, Giulio (1499-1546) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1563-1565

Height:

20.2 cm  (7 15/16 in.)

Width:

13.2 cm  (5 3/16 in.)

oval picture on a rectangular background

Technique / Medium:

engraving, on paper

Place of creation:

Italia

Description

A man playing panpipes leaning against a tree trunk with a nymph standing behind his right shoulder as a cherub holds her right leg. A dog lies at their feet. Drawn in dark brown ink.

Iconclass

92L58(SYRINX)
attributes of Pan: syrinx

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Panpipe [4024] (with seven pipes)

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Bibliographic references

Myth, allegory, and faith: the Kirk Edward Long collection of mannerist prints (Stanford, Ca : Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, 2015) app. 425. ISBN 9788836630882.

Massari, Stefania. Giulio Romano pinxit et delineavit: opere grafiche autografe di collaborazione e bottega (Rome: F.lli Palombi, 1993) 123, cat. 125. ISBN 8876216057.

Bellini, Paolo. L'Opera incisa di Adamo e Diana Scultori (Vicenza: N. Pozza, 1991) 56–57, n. 15, i/iii.

Massari, Stefania. Incisori mantovani del '500: Giovan Battista, Adamo, Diana Scultori e Giorgio Ghisi: dalle collezioni del Gabinetto nazionale delle stampe e della Calcografia nazionale: catalogo. (Rome: De Luca, [1980]) 38, n. 41.

Sopher, Marcus S. and Claudia Lazzaro-Bruno. Seventeenth-century Italian prints: November 14-December 31, 1978, Stanford Art Gallery, Stanford University (1978) 36, n. 47.

RIdIM record id

5185