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Object number

ECL-Bm.11:68-2013

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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

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)
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