Montano prevented from sacrificing Mirtillo by Carino, his adopted Father (Album I)

WAG 1995.129

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Scene from Battista Guarini's tragicomic pastoral work 'Pastor Fido', first published in 1590, which remained popular throughout Europe for the following 200 years. [Mantegna to Rubens: The Weld-Blundell Drawings Collection (Brooke, 1998, p203)]