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Description: | The subject is from Ovid, Metamorphoses, VI.314-381. Seated centrally is the female figure of Latona, in red and white, with her naked infants Apollo and Diana, Jupiter's most famous children. Driven from Mount Olympus by the jealous Juno and pursued by a serpent from country to country, Latona finally came to Lycia in Asia Minor, where she paused to quench her thirst at a clear pool. Hostile, jeering peasants waded into the pool to muddy its waters and the exhausted Latona implored Jupiter to take pity on her and his children. Hearing Latona's cries, Jupiter changed the Lycian peasants into frogs, thereby assuring they would never leave the pool, seen here to the left and behind Latona. There are trees in left background and a castle in right background. | Subjects: | mythology (Ovid; Metamorphoses; Latona; Lycian peasants) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8788... | Go to resource |
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