 Her body is naturalistically rendered as a recumbent lioness.Such sphinxes were revived when the "grottesche" or "grotesque" decorations of the unearthed "Domus Aurea" of Nero were brought to light in late 15th-century Rome, and she was incorporated into the classical vocabulary of arabesque designs that spread throughout Europe in engravings during the 16th and 17th centuries.Sphinxes were included in the decoration of the "loggia" of the Vatican Palace by the workshop of Raphael (1515–20), which updated the vocabulary of the Roman "grottesche".