Apollo and Marsyas

c. 1515/1520

Benedetto Montagna

Associated Names
Benedetto Montagna

Artist, Italian, c. 1480 - 1555 or 1558

An intricately detailed etching viewed from a slightly elevated perspective. Two figures dressed in traditional attire, one standing holding a viola and the other seated playing bagpipes. A tree with full branches on the right, and a path leading to a wooden building in the distance on the left. In the background, a slightly lower horizon. The etching shows fine, meticulous lines to create details and textures, with a monochromatic color palette focusing on black and white contrasts.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    engraving

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 16.2 x 11.2 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1944.8.36

  • 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

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