Dish with the Musical Competition between Apollo and Pan

ca. 1560 (Renaissance)

43.5 cm 5.8 cm

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This dish depicts an episode from the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 BCE-17AD) “The Metamorphoses.” Pan, god of shepherds and rustic music, challenged Apollo, god of the Sun, to a competition of musical ability. In the center, Apollo plays a violin, although in Ovid’s version he played...

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H. Wencke Collection, Hamburg [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [no. 108 (?)]; Seligmann, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, May 7, 1908, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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