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In a 16th-century wooden ornamental decoration, there is an oil painting of the mythical musician Musaeus. The musician is crowned with laurel, wears Renaissance clothes, and holds a string instrument in his right hand. Similar decorative panels on the same wooden structure feature images of Pan, the musician Amphion and Satyr Marsyas playing the aulos.


Caption Oil painting on a wooden ornamental decoration with Musaeus

Mythic people Musaeus (Musician, poet, soothsayer)

Type Wooden object

Artist/Creator Baldassare Peruzzi (1481-1536)

Origin Italy

Current position Musée du Louvre, Paris (France)

Index number RF 998 A

Dating 1500 - 1600 AD

Notes

Musée [Musaeus] - au revers décor ornemental - Louvre Collections

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