16th century artificial ventilation

The image above comes from Allegory of a Dream by Giorgio Vasari (1541-45).  When I found it at Miss Folly, I was startled by the realization that the faun in the drawing is using a furnace bellows to provide artificial ventilation to the man - in the sixteenth century!

Bellows were used in antiquity to try to ventilate people (sometimes insufflating smoke rather than fresh air), but this drawing was made a full century before Robert Hooke showed that it was possible to ventilate a dog with an open thorax.

Very interesting.  Perhaps someday I can take time to look up more information about the painter and what this dream was supposed to be about (?drowning).