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Many oil lamps have decoration that carries symbolic meaning and is now difficult to interpret. Here one side shows the Fall of Ignorant Humanity, in the form of a fat woman flanked by two females. The other, with a youth blowing a horn into a billowing sail, represents the motto 'make haste slowly'. Usually described as a galley, this ship is in fact a fantastical vessel.\r\n\r\nThough a functional object, this elaborate lamp is above all a work of art, designed to take its place alongside other collectibles in a scholar's study that would have primarily been illuminated by candlelight.\r\n\r\nRiccio was trained as a goldsmith and lived and worked all his live in Padua. Today he is acknowledged as one of the greatest bronze sculptors of the Renaissance.\r\nHis statuettes, functional objects, like oil lamps, and reliefs reflect his inimitable ability to express the most refined humanist ideas prevalent in the Veneto in bronze.\r\nHe was also a specialist in rendering themes of classical mythology.\r\nHis oeuvre is sometimes overlooked because of its small scale, but it constitutes one of the most fascinating manifestations of the poetic paganism of the High Renaissance.","physicalDescription":"Bronze oil lamp in the form of an ancient galley, on the sides of which are groups of sea gods and medallions in low relief, and on the cover a statuette of a cupid mounted on a dolphin. 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