id: 312174 accession number: 2018.26 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.26 updated: 2023-01-12 01:45:15.672000 The Flaying of Marsyas, c. 1570–1605. Jan van der Straet, called Johannes Stradanus (Netherlandish, active Italy, 1523–1605). Pen and brown ink and brown and red washes, heightened with white paint (or gouache), on paper prepared with red washes; sheet: 21.1 x 31.5 cm (8 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund 2018.26 title: The Flaying of Marsyas title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1570–1605 creation date earliest: 1565 creation date latest: 1610 current location: creditline: Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund copyright: --- culture: Netherlands, 16th - 17th century technique: Pen and brown ink and brown and red washes, heightened with white paint (or gouache), on paper prepared with red washes department: Drawings collection: DR - Belgian type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jan van der Straet, called Johannes Stradanus (Netherlandish, active Italy, 1523–1605) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 21.1 x 31.5 cm (8 5/16 x 12 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed LR in pen and ink “Strada. / STRADENSIS” translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance opening date: 2019-10-13T04:00:00 Master/Apprentice: Imitation and Inspiration in the Renaissance. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2019-February 23, 2020). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Didier Aaron et Cie, Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 4, 2018 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: In this gruesome mythological scene, Apollo begins to flay, or peel the skin off, the satyr Marsyas as punishment for his arrogant challenge in a musical contest. The surrounding Olympian gods show reactions ranging from horror to fascination. The artist Johannes Stradanus helped found the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno (Academy of the Arts of Drawing) in Florence in 1563, which instituted a course of training for artists that included observing a human dissection. In making this image, Stradanus very likely understood the flaying of Marsyas as a metaphor for the importance of dissection and anatomical study to the artist. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.26/2018.26_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.26/2018.26_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.26/2018.26_full.tif