Marsyas, with pointed ears and horns, is tied to a tree to be flayed alive. In Greek myth, the satyr Marsyas challenged Apollo to a music contest and was skinned alive for losing. From a sculpture in the Galleria Giustiniana. Marsiyas. Copperplate engraving by Richard Collin after an illustration by Joachim von Sandrart from his L’Academia Todesca, della Architectura, Scultura & Pittura, oder Teutsche Academie, der Edlen Bau- Bild- und Mahlerey-Kunste, German Academy of Architecture, Sculpture and Painting, Jacob von Sandrart, Nuremberg, 1675.

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