战胜潘的阿波罗

In the mid-1630s Philip IV of Spain was fitting out a small hunting lodge outside Madrid, the Torre de la Parada, and ordered dozens of mythological scenes drawn from Ovid. Rubens ran the whole project from Antwerp and handed individual pictures to other Flemish painters. This one, from about 1637, went to Jacob Jordaens, worked up from a small sketch by Rubens. The subject is a music contest, the god Apollo with his refined lyre against Pan, the rustic god, on his reed pipes. Jordaens gives Pan the earthy, heavy-limbed body he loved to paint, closer to a farmhand than a deity. The king hung these among the rooms where he hunted deer and boar, so a company of gods and satyrs looked down on a very worldly royal pastime.