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Biagio d’Antonio - Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts [c.1465]

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Biagio d’Antonio - Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts [c.1465]

In this and its companion panel, the story of Jason and the Argonauts unfolds in a continuous narrative. At the left, Jason is charged by King Pelias to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Jason then mounts his horse and consults the centaur Chiron on Mount Pelion together with Hercules and Orpheus. In the distance is Jason's ship, the Argo. The engaged mouldings of the panel are original; the pictures were probably installed as the backrests of two benches or were framed in the wainscoting of a room. As was often the case, more than one painter was involved.

[Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York - Tempera on wood, gilt ornaments 49.8 x 142.2]

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