ECL-Bm.11:68-2013
Parts
Object number
ECL-Bm.11:68-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
Sarcophagus: contest between Apollo and Marsyas
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Comments
Was Fa 2 no.34
Other number
Fa 3 Palazzo no. 34
Description
Content (description)
Apollo sits on rocks in the centre playing the lyre. Marsyas stands on left holding a pipe. Between them stands a draped female; two heads appear in the background. By Marsyas on left sit Athena with her aegis, helmet and spear, and Cybele, who rests her elbow on a monstrous head (lion?). At bottom left reclines a bearded river god leaning on a prow (?) in the water, right. A tree grows behind him on right. At upper level reclines another river god, who holds a cornucopia. On right of Apollo there is a female in the background and then a group of three kneeling males, bearded and draped, two at the feet of Apollo, the one on right facing the viewer. Then there are three draped females standing and a bearded male, with his foot raised on a rock. On far left a half-draped bearded male reclines with a dog by his side, looking up to Apollo. Behind him stands a half-draped nymph, an urn on a pedestal by her side.
Content (object)
drawing
Dimensions
height (actual size): 491mm
width (actual size): 768mm
width (actual size): 768mm
Inscription
Calderi Palazzo Mattei No.34 written in ink on the back of the drawing
Inscription description
C III written in red chalk on front of drawing lower left
Materials & techniques note
black lead pencil on paper
Production
Person
Calderi, Carlo (Artist)
Date
c.1710-1730
History and association
Previous ownership
References
• RR (III ; 291.1)
• ASR (III ; 2 no. 202 Palazzo Mattei)
• ASR (III ; 2 no. 202 Palazzo Mattei)
