Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called il Grechetto / Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr / 1650s

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called il Grechetto
Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr
1650s
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Creator Name: Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto
Creator Nationality: European; Southern European; Italian
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: Italian, 1609-1664
Creator Name-CRT: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called il Grechetto
Title: Youth Playing a Pipe for a Satyr
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1650
Creation End Date: 1659
Creation Date: 1650s
Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors
Materials and Techniques: Brush with colored oil paint; paper partly saturated with oil; lined
Dimensions: 16 1/16 x 21 1/8 in. (40.8 x 53.6 cm)
AMICA Contributor: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 62.126
Credit Line: Pfeiffer Fund, 1962
Rights: http://www.metmuseum.org/
Context:

The artist ventured here with spellbinding bravura into the bucolic world of satyrs and nymphs, attaining the effect of a deliberately unfinished easel painting. The satyr has finished playing his shepherd's pipe and sprawls out with hedonistic abandon as he listens to the beautiful youth take his turn on a pipe. The satyr may represent Pan or Marsyas, while the youth may be Apollo, Olympos, or Daphnis. None of the Classical myths provides an entirely consistent fit with the composition, but it evokes a gentle, idyllic contest. It may allude to the contrast between the passionate spirit of the Dionysian (as represented by the satyr) and the beauty and clarity of reason of the Apollonian (the youth), which, according to Renaissance and Baroque humanists, were the two opposing impulses of artistic creativity.

AMICA ID: MMA_.62.126
AMICA Library Year: 2000
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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