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Severe comforted by Driope and Tavaiano

Technical Details
  • Title
    Severe comforted by Driope and Tavaiano
  • Author
    Bernardino Luini
  • Year
    c. 1514
  • Dimensions
    cm 165x133
  • Room
    X

One of the rooms in the villa was decorated with the sad story of the Satyr Sevis’ love for the nymph Lora, from Luca Pulci’s Driadeo (1446). Here Sevis, depicted as a young man, is consoled by the river Tavaianus and by Dryope, Lora’s mother who has been turned into a tree for loving Apollo. These complex themes are even more difficult to grasp because various parts have been lost. The detached frescoes went to several museums and collections, but the main corpus is in the Brera.

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