Editing Marsyas (section)

== In later arts ==
{{stack|[[Image:Marsyas MET DP228780.jpg|thumb|180px|[[Balthasar Permoser|Permoser]]'s bust of Marsyas (1680–1685).]]}}
In the art of later periods, [[allegory]] is applied to gloss over the somewhat ambivalent morality of the flaying of Marsyas. Marsyas is often seen with a [[flute]], [[pan pipes]], or even [[bagpipes]]. Apollo is shown with his [[lyre]], or sometimes a [[harp]], [[viol]], or other stringed instrument. The [[aulos|contest of Apollo and Marsyas]] is seen as symbolizing the eternal struggle between the [[Apollonian and Dionysian]] aspects of human nature and cultures.{{fact|date=January 2024}}

Paintings taking Marsyas as a subject include "Apollo and Marsyas" by [[Michelangelo Anselmi]] (c. 1492 – c.1554), "The Flaying of Marsyas" by [[Jusepe de Ribera]] (1591–1652), the ''[[Flaying of Marsyas (Titian)|Flaying of Marsyas]]'' by [[Titian]] (c. 1570–1576), "Apollo and Marsyas" by [[Bartolomeo Manfredi]] (St. Louis Art Museum), and "[[Apollo and Marsyas (Giordano)|Apollo and Marsyas]]" by [[Luca Giordano]] (c.1665).{{fact|date=January 2024}}

[[James Merrill]] based a poem, "Marsyas", on this myth; it appears in ''The Country of a Thousand Years of Peace'' (1959). [[Zbigniew Herbert]] and [[Nadine Meyer|Nadine Sabra Meyer]] each entitled poems "Apollo and Marsyas". Following Ovid's retelling of the Apollo and Marsyas tale, the poem "The Flaying Of Marsyas" features in Robin Robertson's 1997 collection "a painted field".{{fact|date=January 2024}}

[[Hugo Claus]] based his poem, ''Marsua'' (included in the 1955 poem collection [[Oostakkerse Gedichten]]), on the myth of Marsyas, describing the process of flaying from the perspective of Marsyas.{{fact|date=January 2024}}

In 2002, British artist [[Anish Kapoor]] created and installed an enormous sculpture in London's [[Tate Modern]] entitled, "Marsyas". Consisting of three huge steel rings and a single red [[PVC]] membrane, The work was impossible to view as a whole because of its size, but had obvious anatomical connotations.<ref>[http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/kapoor/default.htm "The Unilever Series: Anish Kapoor", exhibition information] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720025720/http://tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/kapoor/default.htm |date=2011-07-20 }}</ref>

A bridge that was built toward the end of the [[Roman Empire|Roman]] period on the river Marsyas is still called by the satyr's name, ''Marsiyas''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://avgg.sitemynet.com/arkeoloji/id7.htm |title=A. Güneygül on Archaeology |access-date=2006-01-21 |archive-date=2006-02-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060202232122/http://avgg.sitemynet.com/arkeoloji/id7.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref>

The late composer Kyle Rieger wrote a duet for [[saxophone]] and [[piano]] based on the contest between Marsyas and Apollo titled "Aulos & Lyre".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rieger |first1=Kyle |title=Aulos & Lyre |url=https://www.riegermusic.com/aulos-and-lyre |website=riegermusic.com |access-date=2023-06-09 }}</ref>

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File:M Anselmi Apolo y Marsyas 1540 National Gallery Washington Samuel H Kress col.jpg|''Apollo and Marsyas'' by [[Michelangelo Anselmi]]
File:Runeberg ateneum apollon ja marsyas.jpg|A marble sculpture of [[Apollo]] and Marsyas by [[Walter Runeberg]] at the arrivals hall of [[Ateneum]] in [[Helsinki]], [[Finland]]
Image:Athena and Marsyas Copenhagen.jpg|''Athena and Marsyas'': the discovery of the ''aulos'' in an imaginative recreation of a lost bronze by [[Myron]] (Botanic Garden, [[Copenhagen]])
File:Marsyas and Apollo, apparently but unidentified - Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas - Madrid, Spain - DSC08404.JPG|''Apollo and Marsyas'', porcelain from [[Real Fábrica del Buen Retiro]], 1760s.
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