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Description: | Signed: yes Description: When Jupiter fell in love with the priestess Io, to protect her from the jealousy of his wife, Juno, he transformed Io into a white heifer. Here the astonished creature provides the central focus of the composition. Jupiter is seated in the right foreground, he gazes up at jealous Juno who is depicted in the cloud above. Juno has placed a possessive arm around the peacock in whose tail she had inserted the hundred eyes of the giant Argus, whom she had set to guard over the heifer. | Subjects: | Io) mythology (Jupiter | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Monogrammist MB Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Berg, Matthias van der Previously attributed to Lauri, Filippo (Italian painter, 1623-1694) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8668... | Go to resource |
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