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Allegory of Discord
1477-80
Stucco relief, 50 x 67 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
The subject of this plaster relief - perhaps Lycurgus, who ordered the slaughter of the Maenads - seems mainly an excuse to display nude figures in as many contortions as possible, set against a perspectival backdrop.