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Description: | The subject of this painting is the story of Pan and Syrinx that Mercury recounts in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The artist has depicted the moment when Pan has reached the riverbank and is safely in the arms of the water-nymph. The figures are placed in the foreground against a delicately painted landscape of hills. The forms and nudity of their bodies are influenced by Mannerist art and help convey the mythological context of the scene represented. | Subjects: | Metamorphoses) mythology (Pan and Syrinx); figure; landscape; literature (Ovid | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Lauri, Filippo (Italian painter, 1623-1694) Æ Attributed to circle of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8341... | Go to resource |
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