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unusual facts about Jan Tengnagel, ''Vertumnus



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Noteworthy remains are the statue of the god Vertumnus; the Furlo Pass, constructed by the Emperor Vespasian to shorten the passage of that mountain; and the bridge of Trajan (115) near Calmazzo, and that of Diocletian (292), both over the Metaurus.

Skokloster Castle

One of the most famous paintings is the 16th century Vertumnus by Italian master Giuseppe Arcimboldo.

Vertumnus

The subject was even woven into tapestry in series with the generic theme Loves of the Gods, of which the mid-16th-century Brussels tapestry at Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, woven to cartoons attributed to Jan Vermeyen, must be among the earliest.


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