him, Marsyas was the son of the "divine" Hyagnis. His father was called Oeagrus or Olympus. Alternatively, the latter was said to be Marsyas' son and/or...
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Apollo and Marsyas is the name of the following paintings: Apollo and Daphnis, also known as Apollo and Marsyas, a c. 1483 painting by Pietro Perugino...
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knife to flay Marsyas' chest. It has also been suggested that the musician is Orpheus, or Olympus, a devoted pupil of Marsyas, who Apollo later converts...
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Apollo and Marsyas is a 1637 oil on canvas painting by Jusepe de Ribera, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples. Heavily influenced by Caravaggio...
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Apollo and Marsyas is the title of a 1637 painting by the Spanish artist José de Ribera, now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium. Other versions...
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Mantineia Base (section Apollo and Marsyas (NAMA 216))
three ancient Greek bas relief plaques, one of which depicts Apollo, Marsyas, and a slave, and the other two of which each show a group of three Muses. They...
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burial and nailed Marsyas' flayed skin to a nearby pine-tree as a lesson to the others. Marsyas' blood turned into the river Marsyas. But Apollo soon repented...
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Apollo and Marsyas is an oil-on-canvas painting by the Italian artist Luca Giordano, created circa 1665. It is held at the collection of the Pushkin Museum...
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martyrdoms, the most famous being his renditions of Apollo and Marsyas, now in Brussels and Naples, and his Tityos, now in the Museo del Prado. Alongside...
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Apollo and Marsyas is a 1659–1660 oil on canvas painting by the Italian Baroque artist Luca Giordano, now in the museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples...
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between the god Apollo and the satyr Marsyas, which Marsyas ultimately loses. The painting shows the moments following the competition when Apollo furiously...
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Landscape with Apollo and Marsyas is an oil on canvas painting by Claude Lorrain, created c. 1639. It is held now in the Pushkin Museum, in Moscow. The...
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oinochoe: Marsyas is on the left, Athena on the right. Accordingly, Marsyas raises his left arm. His movement floating between approach and retreat is...
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Muses (redirect from Apollo and the Muses)
writers set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousēgetēs ('Apollo Muse-leader'). In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas. They also...
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Kithara (section Apollo as a kitharode)
lyre. Detail from an Attic white-ground cup from Eretria, c. 465 BC. Apollo and Marsyas, 4th century BC A Roman representation of a woman playing the cithara...
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Apollo and Marsyas "Apollon et le berger Daphni, dit longtemps Apollon et Marsyas". Louvre collections. 1475. "Representations of Apollo and Marsyas in...
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Flaying (section Examples and depictions of flayings)
entire posthumously flayed skin, and many of the other exhibits have had their skin removed. In Greek mythology, Marsyas, a satyr, was flayed alive after...
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Midas (redirect from Midas and the Golden Touch)
stories of the contests with Apollo of Pan and Marsyas were very often confused, so Titian's Flaying of Marsyas includes a figure of Midas (who may be a...
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The Loves of the Gods (category Paintings of Apollo)
and Marsyas, Boreas and Orithyia, Orpheus and Euridice, and The Rape of Europa. South side (on the right of the accompanying image): Apollo and Hyacinth...
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approaches to Earth, Venus, and Mars at a very high relative velocity. It was named after the satyr Marsyas from Greek mythology. Marsyas was initially listed...
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Eugene Lee-Hamilton (section Life and works)
attention. This volume was followed, in 1885, by one entitled Apollo and Marsyas, and his next publication, entitled Imaginary Sonnets, came out in the...
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Music of ancient Greece (section Marsyas myth)
which Marsyas could not do with the aulos. In another account Apollo sang beautifully, which Marsyas could not do. In another account, Marsyas played...
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BC, a denarius was minted by Lucius Marcius Censorinus picturing Apollo and Marsyas the satyr. The coin has attracted several interpretations because...
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reverse of "Nero's Seal", a famous antique carnelian representing Apollo and Marsyas, which belonged to Lorenzo de' Medici. The painting is housed in the...
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Satyr (section In archaic and classical Greece)
Marsyas's hubris. He describes a musical contest between Marsyas, playing the aulos, and the god Apollo, playing the lyre. Marsyas loses and Apollo flays...
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'Golden Legend', which is the Christian version of the fable of the satyr Marsyas, who suffered the same punishment as Saint Bartholomew. This is a work...
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Democritus (Ribera) (section Description and style)
recognized the character portrayed as Archimedes, due to the compass of his hand and the papers with geometric signs that surround him, Delphine Fitz Darby proposed...
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In ancient mythology this was the site of the musical duel between Apollo and Marsyas. Dinar today is a small town in a rural area, with limited amenities...
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Magdalena Ventura with Her Husband and Son or The Bearded Lady is a 1631 oil on canvas painting by the Spanish artist Jusepe de Ribera. It is now part...
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Cinyras (category Children of Apollo)
cursed by Agamemnon and subsequently punished by Apollo, who beat him in a musical contest (similar to that between Apollo and Marsyas, to see who was a...
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