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> Wonderful majolica cup from the workshop of Giacomo Mancini called El Frate, last quarter of the 16th century. At the center, rendered in all its tragedy, the final scene of the myth of Piramo and Tisbe, whose deeds, already narrated by an unknown Hellenistic source, were made famous by Ovid in Metamorphosis (IV liber, vv 55-166).
> Meravigliosa coppa in maiolica proveniente dalla bottega di Giacomo Mancini detto El Frate, ultimo quarto del XVI secolo. Al centro, resa in tutta la sua tragicità, la scena conclusiva del mito di Piramo e Tisbe, le cui gesta, già narrate da ignota fonte ellenistica, furono rese celebri da Ovidio nelle Metamorfosi (IV liber, vv 55-166).

 

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