Musca depicta
Visual depiction of a fly in paintings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about painted representations of flies in artworks. For the fly species formerly called Musca picta, see Delphinia picta.
Musca depicta ("painted fly" in Latin; plural: muscae depictae) is a depiction of a fly as a conspicuous element of various paintings.[1] The feature was widespread in 15th- and 16th-century European paintings, and its presence has been subject to various interpretations by art historians.[1][2]