Castello della Manta (or Manta Castle), in the province of Cuneo, has a beautiful room with frescoes inspired by the characters of a famous medieval epic poem: a representation of the so-celled "Fountain of youth", which over the decades was a recurrent theme for many painters, including the Bavarian Lucas Cranach the Elder, who created what is likely the most famous version of the subject.

However, the "Fountain" in the Manta Castle predates the German artist's painting by a century, and was probably the work of the same anonymous who also decorated the rest of the so-called Sala Baronale around 1420.

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Source: http://www.italianways.com/