Apolo pone orejas de asno a Midas en castigo de su mala sentencia · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Apolo pone orejas de asno a Midas en castigo de su mala sentencia
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Mount Tmolus; Lydia; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts the god Apollo transforming King Midas’s ears into the ears of a donkey. Apollo is on the right side of the image with a laurel wreath on his head and his lyre in his left hand. He’s using his right hand to point to King Midas who is standing with his arms up in defense as donkey ears begin to grow on the side of his head. The god Pan is sitting on the left side of the image holding his reeded pan pipe. Apollo and Pan had a contest to see who was better at playing music. King Midas chose Pan as his winner and Apollo punished him for this decision with the donkey ears.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25110
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25110_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Apollo; Pan; King Midas; Transformation; Hubris; Gods; Mythology