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Friday, July 13, 2012

SILENO E BACCO, Belvedere

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Black and white engraving of statue of Silenus, a bearded male, cradling the infant Hermes [Mercury], from the Vatican in Rome. He does not appear as half-goat as he is sometimes later described, but as with human physique.

 — Sileno e Bacco
(Belvedere, Roma.)
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