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Description: | RU CRE CARPI, Ugo da; (Italian; c.1480-1532)? AFTER PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola; (Italian; 1503-1540) Printed with 3 blocks. This mythological print reproduces a drawing in the Louvre which is one of several oval print designs with subject matter from ancient poetry, especially Virgil. Some illustrate the myth of the satyr Marsyas (10, 11). This image has been identified in the past as the shocked shepherd Olympos discovering the flayed body of his music teacher, Marsyas, after his ill-advised musical contest with Apollo. A more convincing identification was given by Bertha H. Wiles, 1966, suggesting that it represents Achaemenides who was inadvertently left behind by Odysseus on the island of the Cyclops (Aeneid III, 588 ff.). If Parmigianino intended to represent Achaemenides, as seems likely, he may have been inspired by Alberti who cites Achaemenides as a challenge to the skills of a painter: "Anyone painting Achaemenides, found by Aeneas on the Island, with the face which Virgil describes and the other members not following such consumptiveness, would be a painter to laugh at." (Leon Battista Alberti, On Painting, Translated with Introduction and Notes by John R. Spencer, Yale University Press, 1966, p.74). | License: | http://www.hmag.gla.ac.uk/spirit/rights/ | Publisher: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Rights holder: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Subjects: | MALE : FIGURE : PARMIGIANO : SURPRISE : VIRGIL : VERGIL : RENAISSANCE PRINT : | Source: | Hunterian Museum | Creator: | Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow | Identifier: | http://www.huntsearch.gla.ac.uk/cgi-bin/... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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