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Engraving of musicians under a vine trellis, including a seated figure with a donkey, a keyboard instrument, a kneeling singer and a horn player. Latin caption below.

Emblem of Midas and musicians, engraving, 1596

An engraved emblem plate shows several musicians in a garden setting beneath a trellis of vines: a seated figure at left with a donkey beside him, a keyboard instrument, a kneeling singer reading sheet music, and a horn player at right. The Latin caption below reads 'Auriculis Midae non musica gratior ulla est.'

Artist
Johann Theodor de Bry
Date
1596
Medium
Source
Rijksmuseum
Size
3737 × 4000 px
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Public domain · Rijksmuseum marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1596.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Rijksmuseum, image license https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

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