Parnassus Profaned, 1530-1540, Master HFE, Italian or German, active Italy, 1525-1540, 13 7/8 × 19 3/4 in. (35.24 × 50.17 cm) (sheet)15 × 21 3/8 in. (38.1 × 54.29 cm) (sheet, mount), Engraving, Italy, 16th century, Greece’s Mount Parnassus is supposed to be home to poetry, literature and, by extension, learning, and Apollo is meant to hold court. But here, some of Apollo’s follower’s have removed their laurel crowns and moved on to pleasures shared more by animals than by muses. Even the trees no longer stand alone. Still, not everyone has become debauched; some point upwards toward loftier aims. The man and woman at left stand on a remnant of orderly classical architecture, and they look like they’ve had enough and are ready to leave. Pegasus, the virtuous winged horse, has beaten them to the exit and heads for a rainbow in the sky.
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