Wild men* support coats of arms in the side panels of a portrait (“Portrait Triptych of Oswolt Krel”) by Albrecht Dürer, 1499 (Alte Pinakothek, Munich).

*A mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.

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