Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pan

Attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi

Date

16th century

Medium

Pen and brown ink and gray wash and white heightening on tinted light blue paper

Department

European Art

Institution

Minneapolis Institute of Art

Pan, god of the wilderness, possessed physical traits of both man and goat, similar to satyrs. Pan is typically depicted with his pan pipes, which he fashioned out of hollow reeds when the object of his affections, the wood nymph Syrinx, transformed herself into a reed to escape her unwanted suitor. In ancient mythology, wind instruments like horns and flutes were associated with the wild and untamed, while string instruments like lutes and harps connoted civility. Italy, Europe

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