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Thalia (comedy, pastoral poetry) (from the Tarocchi series D: Apollo and the Muses, #16)

before 1467
engraving hand-colored with gold

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FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG

Thalia is the only Muse in the Tarocchi series that is not represented with a celestial disk. Indeed, Thalia was believed to be a bucolic Muse, thus related to earth.

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