| Apollo as Victor over Pan | |
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| German:Apoll als Sieger über Pan,Spanish:Apolo, vencedor de Pan | |
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| Artist | Jacob Jordaens |
| Year | 1636 - 1638 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Movement | Flemish Baroque |
| Dimensions | 180 cm × 270 cm (71 in × 110 in) |
| Location | Museo del Prado[1], Paseo del Prado,Madrid,Spain |
| Owner | King Philip IV, 1637-1665 (his death) Museo del Prado, 1794-present |
| Website | www |
Apollo as Victor over Pan (German:Apoll als Sieger über Pan,Spanish:Apolo, vencedor de Pan,Dutch:Het oordeel van Midas (Ovidius, Met. XI, 146-179)), also known asApollo's Victory over Marsyas,Tmolus declaring Apollo winner in musical competition with Pan (Ovid, Metamorphoses XI) andApollo and Pan, is a 1637 oil-on-canvas painting by FlemishBaroque painter,draughtsman and tapestry designerJacob Jordaens.[2][3][4]
Jordaens participated in a collaborative effort to decorate theTorre de la Parada near Madrid, done between 1636 and 1681, with one of the two paintings Jordaens contributed beingApollo as Victor over Pan (the other beingVertumnus and Pomona).[5]
The subject is taken fromOvid'sMetamorphoses, XI: 146-179. It depicts theflute playing contest between the godApollo and thesatyrMarsyas, which Marsyas ultimately loses. The painting shows the moments following the competition when Apollo furiously beratesMidas, one of the contest's judges, for favoring the flute-playing ability of Marsyas over himself. Marsyas is presented in the canvas with human legs despite being a satyr.[6][7][8][9][10]
The canvas is Jordaens' interpretation of an earlier painting byPeter Paul Rubens entitledApollo and Marsyas. Jordaens' painting of the Rubens canvas was then copied byJuan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, the Spanish Baroque painter and son-in-law ofDiego Velázquez, the royal painter forKing Philip IV of Spain. Aschamberlain of the palace, Velázquez was responsible for acquisition, management and distribution of royal collections of paintings, tapestries, and sculpture which allowed him to decorate thePieza Principal chambers of theRoyal Alcázar of Madrid with Mazo's copy of the original Jordaens painting. Velázquez himself then depicted the copy ofApollo as Victor over Pan in the background of his own canvas,Las Meninas, which has been recognized as one of the most important paintings inWestern art history, effectively creating a painting within a painting.[11][12][13][14][15]
In 2014 theMuseo del Prado loaned the painting, along with nine other works from its collection byPeter Paul Rubens,Anthony van Dyck,Frans Francken the Younger and others, to theMuseo Carlos de Amberes inMadrid for the period of one year.[1]
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