Buste de Marsyas

Balthasar Permoser German

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 548

Permoser fut la figure dominante du baroque allemand en sculpture. Jeune, il se rendit en Italie, et c’est probablement à Rome qu’il exécuta ce buste de Marsyas. Inspiré par L’Âme damnée, sculptée par le Bernin en 1619 et conservée au Palazzo di Spagna, à Rome, Permoser a su rendre l’horreur paroxystique du châtiment infligé à Marsyas. Le satyre, qui avait eu la présomption de défier la virtuosité musicale d’Apollon, fut écorché vif. Les yeux plissés et les cheveux dressés comme des flammes sont typiques de la charge émotive exagérée des œuvres de Permoser. On croit entendre le cri étouffé de Marsyas sortir de sa bouche béante.

Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence

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Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence
Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence
Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence
Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence
Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence
Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence
Marsyas, Balthasar Permoser (German, Kammer, near Otting, Chiemgau, Bavaria 1651–1732 Dresden), Marble on a black marble socle inlaid with light marble panels, German, executed Rome or Florence

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