Apollo flaying Marsyas. Engraving by Melchior Meier, 1581.

  • Meier, Melchior, active approximately 1572-1582.
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1581
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11693i
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[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1581.

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1 print : engraving ; image 22.6 x 31 cm

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Franc[isco] Med[ices] Ma[gnae] Etrur[iae] D[uci] II P.B.M. 15 DD 81 M[elchior] M[eier]

References note

J. Rapp, 'Ein Meisterstich der Florentiner Spätrenaissance entsteht', Pantheon, 1985, 43: 61-70
P. Volk, Apoll schindet Marsyas. Über das Schreckliche in der Kunst, Munich 1995, pp. 195-196
D. Bohde, 'Skin and the search for the interior', in Bodily extremities, ed. F. Egmond and R. Zwijnenberg, Aldershot 2003, pp. 10-47

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Wellcome Collection 11693i

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