Our eyes listen in revulsion as discordant notes are shredded from the wrenched body of Marsyas, which Ribera has laid out before the god of art and music like a howling harmonium. “Every detail ...

In the middle of the 17th century, the Neapolitan artist Salvator Rosa wrote a satirical poem about painting ... for the love of God. Jusepe de Ribera (1591-1652) is a master of rough glory ...

Ribera’s 1637 painting of the flaying of a satyr who rashly challenged the god, which is being lent by the Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte in Naples, provides the finale of the show.