Timolo juez de la musica de Apollo y Pan

Title

Timolo juez de la musica de Apollo y Pan

Period

1550-1600;

Geographic

Lydia

Ancient Greece

Sardis

Description

This engraving depicts a music competition between the gods Pan and Apollo. The judge of the competition is the god of Mount Tmolus, who is illustrated sitting down in the centre of the engraving with his legs crossed and arms pointed outwards. Pan is depicted as a satyr on the right side of the engraving playing his pipe. The left side of the engraving depicts the god Apollo with his lyre resting in his left hand while his right hand strums. The god of Mount Tmolus is depicted looking at Apollo, as he ends up choosing Apollo as the winner of the competition. King Midas of Phrygia is depicted standing next to Pan with the long ears of a donkey. Apollo had transformed his ears after Midas disagreed with Tmolus’ judging.

Image Creator

Virgil Solis (Engraver)

Type

Text

Woodcut Engraving

Identifier

mta:11687

Language

spa

Source Name

Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]

Parent Collection

Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)

Image

mta_11687_OBJ.jpg

Collection

Ovid's Metamorphoses

Subject

Roman Mythology

Greek Mythology

Gods

Lyre

Music

Competition