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Description 'Figure des Sereines': Contemporary illustration of three sirens, or mermaids, from the Ballet Comique de la Reine, 1581. The sirens escorted a chariot, designed like a fountain, containing Queen Louise and her ladies above, and musicians below. The narrative of the ballet, one of the "magnificences" of the age of Catherine de' Medici, mother of Henri III of France, was based on the myth of Circe, who turned men into beasts. This symbolised the state of civil war in France at the time.
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Source Roy Strong, Art and Power, Boydell Press, 1984, ISBN 0851152473, plate 83.
Author Designer / engraver:
Jacques Patin  (15..–1587)  wikidata:Q15430293
 
Description French painter, decorator, drawer and engraver
Date of birth/death 1532 Edit this at Wikidata 28 May 1587 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris (?)
Work period 1564 Edit this at Wikidata
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Printed by Ballard in Balet comique de la Royne, faict aux nopces de Monsieur le Duc de Joyeuse & madamoyselle de Vaudemont sa sœur. Par Baltasar de Beaujoyeulx, valet de chambre du Roy, & de la Royne sa mere. Page 10 verso
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