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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 9737481, member: 5833&quot;]I think the falling angel is a perspective thing, meant to be Nike/Victoria descending with a laurel wreath.&nbsp; Rather than David, think the headless sculpture is the Apollo Belvedere.&nbsp; At about 7 o&#039;clock you&#039;ve got the scallop shell Aphrodite rode in on.&nbsp; I can&#039;t make out what some of the other odds &amp; ends are that are lying around.&nbsp; I see a boar&#039;s head near the man who is reading a totally anachronistic book.&nbsp; I think we are meant to see him as being in the present, perhaps reading classical&nbsp; mythology.&nbsp; There&#039;s a very modern viol at 4 o&#039;clock.</p><p><br /></p><p>Clustered behind him seems to be an assortment of Muses/allegorical figures.&nbsp; Euterpe with a flute; Urania with a globe &amp; astronomical/navigational tool.&nbsp; (Can&#039;t figure out what the other globe-like thing in the background is.)&nbsp; The staff of Hermes/Mercury is in the hand of a woman, so I think it is the usual confusion of that staff, with its wings &amp; 2 twined ribbons, &amp; the staff of the physician Asklepios, with its single snake &amp; no wings.&nbsp; I think she represents Medicine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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