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Description: | The painting is one of eight panels set into the wall of the Old Library. In the early nineteenth century, it was thought that the subject was Pliny writing an ode for his daughter weeping over the loss of her bird. More likely, it shows the Roman poet Catallus and his lover Lesbia, to whom he dedicated several poems, including one about her reaction to her dead bird. Lesbia may have been a real person or an invented muse. The name has literary and erotic connotations, evoking the home of Sappho. The poem was later translated by Byron. | Subjects: | Lesbia) poem Lugete Veneres Cupidinesque); figure (Catallus literature (Catullus | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Rebecca, Biagio (Italian painter, 1735-1808, active in Great Britain) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8692... | Go to resource |
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