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Wild Man with Club
This Mannerist fresco (c. 1590) on a main hall ceiling shows a bearded wild man striding nude except for a leafy loincloth, gripping an oversized club. A spotted feline at his feet and a patterned border above frame him within a decorative program. The wild man motif in European art embodied fantasies of untamed nature and projected ideas of the exotic and uncivilized.
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