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Palma il Giovane: Apollo and Marsyas

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Alternative names	Birth name: Iacopo Negretti, Jacopo Palma il Giovane
Description	Italian painter, etcher, graphic artist, engraver, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death	circa 1550	17 October 1628
Location of birth/death	Venice	Venice
Work location	Venice
Authority file	: Q651795 VIAF: 90630874 ISNI: 0000000108031600 ULAN: 500027810 LCCN: n84155958 NLA: 35799479 WorldCat

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Apollo and Marsyas

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Genre

mythological painting

Description

Apollo and Marsyas

Date

second half of 16^th century

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 134 cm (52.7 in)

; width: 195 cm (76.7 in)

Collection

Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum

	Native name	Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
	Parent institution	3Landesmuseen
	Location	Brunswick
	Coordinates	52° 15′ 48.6″ N, 10° 31′ 58.8″ E
	Established	1754
	Website	Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum
	Authority file	: Q678082 VIAF: 154278018 ISNI: 0000000404311930 ULAN: 500306113 LCCN: n50049849 NLA: 35115936 WorldCat

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PALMA GIOVANE

(b. 1544, Venezia, d. 1626, Venezia)

Apollo and Marsyas (1) - Oil on canvas, 134 x 195 cm Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum, Braunschweig

The characteristic artist of Venetian mannerism, the young Palma (the grandson of the brother of Palma Vecchio) divided the story into two parts and painted a matching set of paintings based on it. The first picture depicts the musical contest between Apollo and Marsyas in the presence of Midas, the king of Lydia. The central character is Apollo, dressed in a red robe with his laurel-garlanded head bent over the violin.

Instead of Marsyas's own instrument, the Phrygian double recorder, a syrinx or shepherd's pipe appears in the second picture in front of King Midas. He deemed its music superior to the sound of Apollo's divine instrument and was punished by growing ass's ears. The pagan flutist, however, received harsher punishment: the majestic but merciless young god is preparing to have him flayed.

The landscape background with clear blue sky in both paintings evokes the world of myths, in which the happiness and cruel justice of the eternal gods coexist for the edification of the observer.

Thus in this artistic conception the elements of Apollo's two musical duels are present and are even intermingled. It seems the painter did not adhere to the Ovidian source. In this time only the moral of the two episodes was important: the victory of divine stringed instruments over the sensual wind instruments.

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Author: PALMA GIOVANE Title: Apollo and Marsyas (1) Time-line: 1551-1600 School: Italian Form: painting

Type: mythological

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