The writer discusses sculptures of grotesque figures and distorting mirrors at the early-18th-century Villa Palagonia in Bagheria, Sicily. He considers Goethe's interpretation of a satyr holding a mirror as an allegorical caricature referring to the Prince of Palagonia and his attempt to fruitfully link art and catoptrics in the interior decoration of his villa.
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