# Spy [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIANTA, Francesco]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Wood ## Commentary This wooden altar frontal is on the wall of the Sala Superiore in the Scuola Grande di San Rocco, Venice. At sides of an extraordinary Library - alone sufficient to demonstrate the artistic stature of Pianta, such is the skilful realistic illusion of those antique bound volumes - are the blindfold and chained Fury with gnashing teeth, and the Spy, almost a caricature, enveloped in his ample cloak and with his hat pulled down and partly covering his eyes. ## Related artworks - [Fury]() - [Mercury]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()