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and it also establishes an Olympian hierarchy:
the idealized
Apollo occupying
the highest
rung and the half-animal
Marsyas,
the lowest. The picture is, in other words,
one that expects
from the viewer an engaged
intellect. Moreover, it is one that contains beautiful passages of
painting
and commands attention
by
the nobility
of its invention?however overdone we may
find the compliment paid
to was
Pasqualini (full-length portraiture generally
reserved for
persons of high
social status or people holding high-ranking positions).
It should
perhaps
come as no
surprise
that the patron of this extraordinary
work may have been Pasqualini
himself.
Vanity
has
an
always played important part in sponsoring
the arts, and it was cer
tainly
to
key
the promotion of countless careers in the seventeenth century. Seldom has
flattery and artistic talent come together
in quite
such a self-congratulatory way.
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