Allegory of the Arts
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Three figures in a landscape of mountains, trees and a waterfall; above, in a cloud, a semi-nude female holding a lute and a scroll inscribed 'Nil studium sine divite vena nec rude ingenium'; below, two figures wearing wreaths, one holding a scroll inscribed 'Natura laudabile Carmen an Arte?', the other a scroll inscribed 'Dulces ante omnia Musa Quarum Sacra fero'; on the ground, books, with the titles 'De Arte Poet.', 'Oder. Lib.', 'Aeneid' and 'Georgia'.
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Ingenuity: Ingenium, Ingenuity: Genius, Wreath, Lute, Muse, Books, Poetry
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The British Museum
