The Master from Perugia, who deserves more space in the world of art, was not a trivial and easy to read painter.
The first criticism is based on the falcon that seizes the prey to interpret the painting as an Apollo listening to Marsyas, in the competition that obviously will win the beautiful Greek god. Marsyas was a satyr, does the painted one seem a satyr?!?
A more current (and perhaps more precise) interpretation sees the young pastor Dafni intent on playing the young (in Greek it means laurel, from laurel comes Lorenzo). A beautiful allegory wanted by Lorenzo the Magnificent? Likely.
What is certain is that the two figures are copied from two great works of the past signed by Praxiteles and by the school of Lisippo.
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