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APOLLO her as she flies toward the Peueus ; her arms have already sprouted into laurels. Cat. Nat. Gal. APOLLO AND MARSYAS, Claude Lor- rain, Earl of Leconfield ; canvas, H. 3 ft 9 in. x 5 ft. Liber Veritatis, No. 95. Engraved by Muller. Collections Passart, Haye, Sir T. Coke. Another Apollo and Marsyas (Liber Veritatis, No. 45), formerly in Crozat Gallery, now in Hermitage, St. Peters- burg. Pattison, Claude Lorrain, 231, 246. Apollo and Marsyas, Guercino, Palazzo Pitti, Florence. By Guercino, Palazzo Pitti, Florence ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 11 in. X ft, 7 in. Apollo nude, is flaying Marsyas, who lies upon his back with his hands bound to a tree upon which are suspended a violin and bow ; be- hind Apollo, two figures, partially concealed, are looking on. Engraved by Massard ; L. Martelli. Wicar, ii. Part 17 ; Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. PI. G. By Guido Eeni, Munich Gallery ; canvas, H. 6 ft. 10 in. x 5 ft. 3 in. Apollo flaying Marsyas ; the lyre of the god hangs upon a tree. Figures life size. By Raphael, Camera della Segnatura, Vatican ; fresco, on ceiling, Apollo seated, with his lyre in his hand, is ordering a shepherd to flay Marsyas, who is bound to a tree ; another shepherd holds a laurel crown over Apollo's head. Painted in 1511. The victory of Apollo is that of true over false art which merits punishment. En- graved by R Wibert. Passavant, ii. 89 ; Miintz, 347. By Jtaphael, Louvre, Paris ; wood, H. 15^ iu. x 11^ in. Apollo standing with a staff, listens disdainfully to the strains of a pipe played by Marsyas, who is sitting on a bank ; background a land- scape with river, hills, and a town. Painted in Perugia in 1504-5 (?). Collection of John Barnard ; sold in 1787 to M. Duroveray, at whose death, bought in 1850, by Mr. Morris Moore, of Rome, who sold it to the Louvre in 1883 for 8000. Authenticity de- nied by Waagen, Passavant, and Mundler, but their opinion not generally ac- cepted. Has been attribu- ted to Mantegna, and with more reason to Timoteo Viti. C. & C., Raphael, i. 209 ; Passavaut, ii. 354 ; Muntz, 224 ; Grayer, Raph- et 1'Antiquitt' 1 , ii. 421 ; Eitelberger, ael Rafael's Apollo und Marsyas, Vienna (1860) ; Battc, Le Raphael de M. Morris Moore, Paris (1859) ; Graphic, London, May 26, 1883. APOLLO AND THE MUSES. See Mu- ses, Dance of. APOLLODORUS, of Athens ; old Attic school ; about 408 B.C. Dr. H. Bruun re- gards him as the first real painter, inas- much as he no longer marked contours by actual lines, but represented objects as they appear to the eye. He changed the rigid architectural character of painting, distin- guished before him by a formal and rhyth-