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科西莫一世·德·美第奇公爵被描绘成神话中的音乐家与诗人俄耳甫斯，呈现他刚刚驯服地狱三头犬刻耳柏洛斯后的场景——俄耳甫斯曾试图从此冥界守卫手中夺回妻子欧律狄刻。这幅极具感官张力的年轻公爵裸体肖像蕴含多重寓意：既象征美第奇家族新一代渴望开创的太平盛世，也暗喻公爵对文艺的庇护，还可能指涉1539年他与埃莱奥诺拉·迪·托莱多的联姻。此画作的创作很可能与庆祝这场婚礼的庆典仪式密切相关。
Duke Cosimo I de' Medici is shown as the mythological musician and poet Orpheus after having calmed Cerberus, the doglike guardian to Hades from which Orpheus wished to retrieve his wife, Eurydice. The highly sensual portrait of the naked young duke may have several meanings: the peaceful age that the new generation of Medici wished to usher in, the duke's patronage of the arts and literature, or his marriage to Eleonora di Toledo in 1539. This painting could have been made in conjunction with ceremonies celebrating the latter occasion.
