Instruments of Passion: Music, Painting, and the Contest of the Arts - Video

This symposium brings together international scholars to reevaluate the paragone, the contest of the arts, from Antiquity to Modernism. Significant attention will be paid to the contest between Apollo and Marsyas. The symposium is a collaboration among The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Columbia University, New York, and Freie Universität, Berlin. Above (Detail): Andrea Sacchi (Italian, Roman, 1599–1661), "Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo," 1641. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Enid A. Haupt Gift and Gwynne Andrews Fund, 1981 (1981.317)