Parnassus

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Parnassus
Parnassus
Room of the Segnatura

Beneath Poetry, Mount Parnassus is represented: the god Apollo, seated at the centre, plays the lyre surrounded by the nine Muses, protectresses of the arts, and by ancient and modern poets, among whom Homer (blind), Virgil and Dante are easily recognisable behind him, as well as the poetess Sapphos seated at the bottom left, with her name written on the scroll she holds in her left hand.