# Landscape with the Contest between the Muses and the Pierides [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [UDEN, Lucas van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 82 x 119 cm ## Commentary The literary source for the contest between the Muses and the Pierides was Ovid's Metamorphoses, V, 294-678. The nine daughters of Pierus, King of Emathia, overconfident of their musical talent, challenged the Muses to a singing contest. After all had performed, the adjudicating nymphs declared the Muses the winners. The Pierides unwisely clamoured against their decision, and as punishment for their presumption and rudeness were transformed into magpies. ## Related artworks - [Alpine Landscape]() - [Coastal Landscape with Storm]() - [Extensive Landscape]() - [Landscape with a Cart Crossing a River]() - [Landscape with a Fortune-Teller]() - [Landscape with Hunters]() - [Landscape with Tall Trees]() - [Landscape with the Flight into Egypt]() - [Landscape with Village Feast in the Background]() - [Panoramic River Landscape]() - [River Landscape]() - [Summer Landscape, Haying]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()