Sienese 16th Century

Anonymous Sienese 16th Century

Sienese, 16th century

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A young person with dark blond hair, wearing a knee-length, pale yellow toga, stands playing a violin-like instrument at the center of this long, horizontal landscape painting. A pair of people are to the left and another pair to the right. Most of the people have pale skin, and two of the men have slightly darker, tanned complexions. The person at the center, Apollo, nearly spans the height of the painting. He tips his head back and to our right, toward the instrument on his shoulder, and he looks at us with dark eyes, lips parted. With his other hand, he holds a bow to the instrument’s strings. A dark green wreath of leaves encircles his long hair, and a quiver of arrows is tied with a pine-green ribbon across his chest. His legs are bare, and he wears sandals. An archer’s bow lies on the dirt ground behind his feet. To our right, a man with a dark beard and hair, Marsyas, sits on a rock playing a bagpipe. He faces our left in profile, looking up at Apollo, and he wears a red robe over a royal-blue tunic. Behind him and to our right, near the edge of the panel, a blond woman wearing a rose-pink dress also plays a bagpipe as she looks down onto her reflection in a pool below, in the lower right corner of the composition. Her left foot rests on a white and gold shield, and a golden helmet sits next to her other foot. Marsyas and Apollo appear again as a pair to our left. Marsyas is now nude and tied to a tree, his body facing us, near the left edge of the panel. His mouth is open and he looks toward Apollo, who approaches from our right. Apollo grabs Marsyas’s left wrist, on our right, and holds a knife to the nude man’s upper arm. The set of bagpipes, the quiver of arrows, Marsyas’s clothing, and Apollo’s instrument are strewn on the ground around the men’s feet. The scenes take place in a rocky landscape with dark green shrubs along the bottom edge of the composition and behind the people. A river runs across the land beyond, and people walk along dirt roads in the distance. Trees, craggy cliffs, and a town in the deep distance are painted with icy blue under a blue sky.
Sienese 16th Century, Bartolomeo di David, Apollo and Marsyas, c. 1540, oil on panel, Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1939.1.350

Apollo and Marsyas

Sienese 16th Century, Bartolomeo di David · c. 1540 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1939.1.350

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Albarello with grotesques and ornamental patterns

Sienese 16th Century · c. 1510/1515 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3997

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Plate with shield of arms and ornamental patterns

Sienese 16th Century · c. 1510/1520 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.4041

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Albarello with grotesques and ornamental bands

Sienese 16th Century · c. 1510/1515 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3998

Sienese 16th Century, Plate with border of grotesques on an orange ground; in the center, Narcissus gazing at his reflection in a fountain, c. 1510/1520, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Widener Collection, 1942.9.315

Plate with border of grotesques on an orange ground; in the center, Narcissus gazing at his reflection in a fountain

Sienese 16th Century · c. 1510/1520 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  1942.9.315

Sienese 16th Century, Small Side Chair, 16th century, walnut, Widener Collection, 1942.9.405

Small Side Chair

Sienese 16th Century · 16th century · walnut ·  Accession ID  1942.9.405

Sienese 16th Century, Small Side Chair, 16th century, walnut, Widener Collection, 1942.9.404

Small Side Chair

Sienese 16th Century · 16th century · walnut ·  Accession ID  1942.9.404

Tuscan 16th Century, Cafaggiolo 16th Century, Sienese 16th Century, Tile with Saint Martin and the Begger, c. 1500/1520, tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica), Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2015.19.3986

Tile with Saint Martin and the Begger

Tuscan 16th Century, Cafaggiolo 16th Century, Sienese 16th Century · c. 1500/1520 · tin-glazed earthenware (maiolica) ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3986

Sienese 16th Century, Walnut Bench with Balustraded Back, 16th century, carved, gilded, and polychromed walnut and oak, Widener Collection, 1942.9.386

Walnut Bench with Balustraded Back

Sienese 16th Century · 16th century · carved, gilded, and polychromed walnut and oak ·  Accession ID  1942.9.386

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Walnut Bench with Balustraded Back

Sienese 16th Century · 16th century · carved, gilded, and polychromed walnut and oak ·  Accession ID  1942.9.385