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Performing Arts
About this space
The putti represent the literary genres of Comedy, Poetry, and Tragedy. Comedy has a comic mask and the ivy-wreathed wand of Bacchus, to whom the first comedies were dedicated. Poetry has a scroll, and Tragedy holds a tragic mask.