# Ameto's Discovery of the Nymphs

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MASTER of 1416](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-1416-r8556100e1e06d2>)
- Date: 1401-1450
- Technique: Tempera on wood, 54 x 56 cm

## Commentary

Ameto&#39;s Discovery of the Nymphs c. 1410 Tempera on wood, 54 x 56 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This twelve-sided panel is the front of a marriage salver. It illustrates an episode from Boccaccio&#39;s Comedia delle Ninfe Florentine, written in c. 1342. The hunter Ameto, dressed in red, peers over a hill and then approaches some nymphs in a thicket.

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- [St Anthony Abbot and St Francis of Assisi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/master-of-1416-r8556100e1e06d2/st-anthony-abbot-and-st-francis-of-assisi-r1e6133fea64c32>)

## Attribution

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