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The flaying of marsyas
Giovanni Battista Foggini
Florence, before 1716
Bronze
59,5 x 50,0 x 24,0 cm
Inv.-Nr. R 3233
From the Düsseldorf Gallery, transferred before 1883 from the Royal Collections
Gallery 66
Foggini’s sculpture is a representation of Apollo in the act of flaying alive the satyr Marsyas, who is tied to a tree, a scene warning of the drastic consequences of hybris against the world order as represented by the god. A gift to the Palatine court, this work by the leading Florentine sculptor of the time was displayed together with other bronzes in the Düsseldorf Paintings Gallery of the Electors Palatine.
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