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Object number

ECL-Bm.1:65/2-2012

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Identification

Title

Sarcophagus: contest between Apollo and Marsyas

Title Type

assigned by cataloguer

Description

Content (description)

In centre are Marsyas and Apollo, who sits with his foot on a griffin and rests his lyre on his tripod. Between them in the background stands a female (a muse?). To left of them are seven figures and three heads (one of a muse) in the background. These include Ahtena, Cybele with a lion, a nymph and a satyr holding a bunch of grapes. On right are eight figures and two heads of muses in the background. These figures include a female holding a torch by Apollo, Hermes, a river god and two Scythians, one of whom sharpens his knife, the other prepares to fasten Marsyas to a pine tree.

Content (object)

drawing

Dimensions

height (actual size): 393mm
width (actual size): 502mm

Inscription

Villa Borghese. Facciata seconda. Apolline con muse, Pan, Pallade e Cibele &ct.

Materials & techniques note

Red pencil on paper

Production

Person

Calderi, Carlo (Artist)

Date

c.1710 - 1730

History and association

Previous ownership

References

• Montelatici (164)
• Louvre (Ma 972)
• ASR (III, 2; no. 203)
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