Apollo and Marsyas (Ribera, Naples)

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Apollo and Marsyas is a 1637 oil on canvas painting by Jusepe de Ribera, now in the Museo nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples.^[1]

Heavily influenced by Caravaggio, he produced another version, also in 1637, now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.^[1]

History[edit]

The work is first recorded in a catalogue of the Avalos collection dating between 1650 and 1700,^[2] on the occasion of it passing from the collection of Giovanni d'Avalos, probably the commissioner, to his son Andrea di Montesarchio.^[1][3]

It was one of several works on the subject by Ribera - in his 1630 Il Forastiero Giulio Cesare Capaccio mentions a work by Ribera on that subject at Gaspar Roomer's private Villa Bisignano at the gates of Naples, probably his very first treatment of it.^[4]

Analysis[edit]

Other versions and modelli[edit]

Another of Ribera's 1637 works is also drawn from Metamorphoses, namely Venus and Adonis, now in the galleria di palazzo Corsini in Rome, which strongly relates to the Naples and Brussels works, suggesting the three works were part of the same commission.^[4] Recorded in Gaspar Roomer's house, a c.1630 work by the artist on the subject is probably the prototype for both the Naples and Brussels works.^[4] A work by his pupil Antonio De Bellis on the subject is in a museum in Sarasota.

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  Apollo and Marsyas (1637, Ribera - Brussels version)
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  Venus and Adonis (1637, Ribera - Museo di Palazzo Corsini, Roma)
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  Apollo and Marsyas (1637-40, Antonio De Bellis (attr.) - Museum of Art, Sarasota)
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  Apollo and Marsyas (1659-60, Luca Giordano - Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli)

References[edit]

Bibliography (in Italian)[edit]

• Archivio storico per le province napoletane, Napoli, edited by the Società napoletana di storia e patria, 2015.
• Museo di Capodimonte, Milano, Touring Club Italiano, 2012, ISBN 978-88-365-2577-5.
• Pierluigi Leone De Castris, I tesori dei d'Avalos: committenza e collezionismo di una grande famiglia napoletana, Napoli, Casa editrice Fausto Fiorentino, 1994.
• O. Ferrari e G. Scavizzi, Luca Giordano. L'opera completa, Electa, Napoli.
• N. Spinosa, Ribera. L'opera completa, Electa, Napoli 2003.