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Maestro delle Metamorfosi di Ovidio
Pyramus and Thisbe, German School 17th century
Rectangular bronze plaque with brown patina; mm 124.5 x 70.2; gr 220.2.
Pyramus lies dead under the trees, while Thisbe falls on her sword with her arms outstretched. On the right, a well and a male figure in the act of urinating; on the left, among the trees, a running rabbit; in the background, the world and the moon?
Beautiful contemporary fusion
Biblical Weber 1975, p. 355, n 860\10; Walcher von Molthein 1926, n. 374
Pyramus lies dead under the trees, while Thisbe falls on her sword with her arms outstretched. On the right, a well and a male figure in the act of urinating; on the left, among the trees, a running rabbit; in the background, the world and the moon?
Beautiful contemporary fusion
Biblical Weber 1975, p. 355, n 860\10; Walcher von Molthein 1926, n. 374
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