Apollo and Marsayas
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Attributed to Luca Giordano
(Naples, Italy, 1634–1705)
NationalityItalian, Europe
Datecirca 1656
MediumPen and brown ink with brush and brown wash over traces of black chalk
DimensionsSheet: 16 1/2 × 10 1/2 in. (41.9 × 26.7 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017.1151
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2017.1151
On View
Not on viewGiordano, the leading painter in late century Naples, was active and influential throughout Italy. His biographer, De Domenici, mentions that in Rome around 1656, Giordano was struck by some drawings by Cambiaso and took to copying them. While clearly inspired by Cambiaso, the hand responsible for this drawing is broader in rhythm and more generalized in effect. It is consistent with other drawings that have been attributed to Giordano around this time. Apollo and Marsyas was also a favorite subject in seventeenth-century Naples.
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