Screen with grotesques, 19th century
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19th century Screen with grotesques (5) Oil on canvas, 158 x 185 cm The screen analyzed is made up of five panels, each divided into two panels decorated with elements of the natural world on the upper level and grotesque decorations on the lower level. The grotesque is a type of ornamentation often used in painting, sculpture and minor arts, for example in ceramics and tapestries, developed at the end of the 15th century. The five upper panels refer to as many famous Aesop's fables, i.e. in the first panel the fable of The frogs ask for a king is depicted, the second panel represents the roosters and the partridge, the third panel has as its protagonist the famous fable of the