La Fucina di Vulcano. Un disegno milanese per un camino

A drawing for a fireplace, today preserved at the biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan (codex F 252 inf., f. 637), deserves to be again discussed for the mythological subjects which enrich its decorations and for its possible patrons at the beginning of the 16th century. the scenes and figures represented permit perhaps to recognize a cultural context other than the Milanese one, where scenes coming from classical mythology were less common. Moreover, the subjects suggest some discussions on the artistic relations between Milan and Mantua and Ferrara at the early cinquecento