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| Keywords: Milan Marsyas Painter - Plate with Perseus and Andromeda - Walters 481366.jpg Walters Art Museum artwork Creator Milan Marsyas Painter We do not know the name of the painter of this plate but his style of stark outlines and crisp forms is distinctive and he can be identified as the artist responsible for a group of works centered on one depicting the mythological flute-player Marsyas that is now in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan from which he is known as the Milan Marsyas Painter He apparently collaborated with the more famous Francesco Xanto Avelli in Urbino The scene of Perseus and Andromeda is derived from a woodcut in a popular Venetian edition of Ovid's The Metamorphoses which was used as a virtual handbook for maiolica painters interested in mythological subjects Perseus holding the head of Medusa slew a dragon and rescued Andromeda who had been tied to a rock ca 1520 1535 Renaissance earthenware with tin glaze maiolica cm 2 3 26 4 accession number 48 1366 10133 Mrs M R McGarel date and mode of acquisition unknown Mrs M R McGarel Collection Sale Christie Manson and Woods London July 17 1913 no 78 Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1917 place of origin Urbino Italy Walters Art Museum license Italian Renaissance maiolica in the Walters Art Museum Milan Marsyas Painter Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review Urbino maiolica | ||||
