Apollo and Marsyas
c. 1515/1520
Artist, Italian, c. 1480 - 1555 or 1558

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 16.2 x 11.2 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.)
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Accession
1944.8.36
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hind 'Engravings', Vol. 5, p.186, no. 41, State only
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1955
installation to accompany two concerts titled "Love Songs of the Renaissance," Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1955, no cat.
1973
Prints of the Italian Renaissance, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1973, no. 249.
2018
Sharing Images: Renaissance Prints into Maiolica and Bronze, cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, NGA, 2018, no.
Bibliography
1938
Hind, Arthur M. Early Italian Engraving; a critical catalogue with complete reproductions of all the prints described. 7 vols. London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd., 1938-1948.
1973
Levenson et al. 1973, no. 132.
1996
Wyss, Edith. The Myth of Apollo and Marsyas in the Art of the Italian Renaissance: An Inquiry into the Meaning of Images. Newark, Delaware and London, 1996: no. 91 (appendix), fig. 50 (p. 85).
Inscriptions
upper left in plate: BENEDETO / MONTAGNA
Wikidata ID
Q65019163