Pan reclincing near a large vase set in a landscape

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)

ca. 1645 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

In the 1640s, Castiglione produced a group of etchings that bring to life the world of Theocritus' 'Idylls' and Virgil's 'Eclogues', in which Pan is frequently invoked as lord of the flocks and patron of pastoral poetry. In this etching, the resting god, wearing his usual crown of pine, receives a second crown of grape leaves. The volcano must be Etna, for the rustic verse of both the Greek Theocritus (ca. 300–260 B.C.) and the Roman Virgil (70–19 B.C.) is set in Sicily.

Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto)
Date: ca. 1645
Medium: Etching
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917

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