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[Engraving after a fresco by Giulio Romano in Palazzo Te]

Date

1859

Medium

Albumen silver print

Culture

Italian

Department

Photographs

Institution

Getty Museum

Photograph of an engraving or an illustration by Johann Michael Wittmer, after a fresco by Giulio Romano in the Chamber of Cupid and Psyche in Palazzo Te. It depicts a scene from the fresco, showing the preparations of the banquet for Cupid and Psyche. A number of satyrs and nymphs are in the scene, including a satyr who is holding up a piece of bread in the foreground. Romano and Wittmer's names are inscribed in between the lunettes at the top of the image, with the year 1854 in Roman numerals.

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