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A Satyr mourning over a
Nymph Oil on panel, 65.4 x 184.2 cm, by Piero di Cosimo, c. 1495 The National Gallery, London |
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Possibly a scene from Ovid’s
Metamorphoses, in which the nymph Procris is accidentally
slain by her husband Cephalus. A later fifteenth-century retelling
introduced the satyr, a figure absent from Ovid’s original text. The
panel’s size indicates it was likely part of furniture or wall
decoration, a format Piero di Cosimo frequently worked in. |
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