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Date : 1526
Sizes : 1.85 m x 1.28 m
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Mond Bequest (1924)
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Italian Painting
Painting
Area related
Italy
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The painting is based on a woodcut illustration to a popular romance called the "Hypnerotomachia Poliphili" (Dream of Polyphilus), published in Venice in 1499. It was probably not intended as an illustration to that work, but as a representation of pagan sacrificial rites in general. The painting is dated in Roman numerals on step of the altar.
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