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Date : approx. between 1552 and 1571
Sizes : 2.37 m x 1.89 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Presented by the National Art Collections Fund (1941)
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Italian Painting
Painting
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Italy
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The fantastical landscape and sky are the true subjects of this painting. They provide the setting for tales associated with Eurydice's death from a snake - bite on her wedding day, as told in the Roman poet Virgil's Georgics (Book 4). This canvas belongs to a series of mythological landscapes made by Niccolò when court painter to François I at Fontainebleau.
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