This is a fresco of an elegant building with a garden and waterway in front of it. The building is pale orange with white columns, a triangular pediment, and large windows. There is a red doorway at the top of a few stairs that shows a brown interior. A few people sit or stand on the steps by the doorway, looking in the building. On the left, two people walk towards the doorway. One of them has a bare chest and the legs of a goat, while the other is a person in a pink tunic with blond hair and white boots. Both people have pale skin. Closer to us, there is a green garden filled with green…
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Cephalus and Pan at the Temple of Diana

Bernardino Luini (Milanese, c. 1480 - 1532)

c. 1520/1522

Medium
fresco
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 226 x 103.5 cm (89 x 40 3/4 in.)
Culture
Milanese
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CIS-R
Credit line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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