Apollo with his Lyre
1846
From the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst
1846
From the collection of Statens Museum for Kunst
Dominant colour
Apollo with his Lyre is a 1846 by Unknown, a Romanticism work, held at Statens Museum for Kunst.
This is a black-and-white photo of a shirtless man holding a lyre, a stringed instrument. He’s barefoot, wearing a short skirt-like cloth, and has a leafy wreath on his head. His left foot steps on a satyr’s leg—half-man, half-goat—lying on the ground. The photo was made in 1846, one of the earliest uses of photography to capture art. The artist dressed the model in ancient Greek-style clothes to look like Apollo, the Greek god of music. Look up chiaroscuro to see how light and shadow create drama in art.
