Music

This tondo, one of the twenty-one painted for the ceiling of the celebrated library, won the golden chain prize for the artist.

On the painting, the Apollonian serenity of the noble winged instruments is offset by the Dionysiac presence of the mutilated statue of the predatory faun.

Suggested listening (streaming mp3, 5 minutes): Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon a Duodecimi Toni