Panel with Pyramus and Thisbe. Dirck van Rijswijck, Amsterdam 1659, executed numerous panels with floral inlay, but rarely, if ever, depicted human figures. Lydian stone, inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Two characters of Roman mythology whose love story of ill-fated lovers is also a sentimental romance.

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Panel with Pyramus and Thisbe. Dirck van Rijswijck, Amsterdam 1659, executed numerous panels with floral inlay, but rarely, if ever, depicted human figures. Lydian stone, inlaid with mother-of-pearl. Two characters of Roman mythology whose love story of ill-fated lovers is also a sentimental romance.

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