Contest between Apollo and Marsyas
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
sheet diameter: 12 13/16 in. (32.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1932
Accession Number
32.92.1
Tags
Musical InstrumentsMenApolloDogsBow and ArrowMusicTrees
About the Artist
Giulio Romano|Anonymous, French, School of Fontainebleau, 16th century · 1499–1546
Giulio Romano (c. 1499–1546) was the most gifted pupil of Raphael and one of the founding figures of Mannerism, the style that succeeded the High Renaissance in Italy. Born Giulio Pippi in Rome, he entered Raphael's workshop as a boy and proved so talented that by the time of Raphael's death in 1520 he was effectively running the studio and overseeing the completion of major unfinished commissions...