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Original fileThe drawing shows a young woman looking downward with her hair tied in an intricate bun. Fine lines and hatching create a sense of soft light and volume across her face and the loose curls around her ear. This sketch served as a life study for one of the divine figures accompanying Apollo in the Vatican apartments.
As a study for the Parnassus, this figure represents the Neoplatonic concept of 'divine frenzy' or poetic inspiration. It belongs to a decorative program intended to harmonize classical mythology with Christian theology and philosophical reason.
F. HORNE
Marsilio Ficino
Ficino's theories on the four divine frenzies—the first of which is the poetic madness inspired by the Muses—informed the iconographic program of Raphael's rooms.
Object
Oil on panel
mythological
Digital Source
Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
http://www.museohorne.it/collezione-online/#gallery-77
1260 × 1600 px
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