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Sleeping Endymion

1756

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The story

The moon goddess Selene fell in love with the mortal Endymion and asked Zeus to let him stay forever as he looked while sleeping in a cave on Mount Latmus. Zeus granted it, and Selene visited him every night, bearing him fifty daughters.

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Object details

Title: Sleeping Endymion
Artist: Nicolas-Guy Brenet
Date: 1756
Culture: Not recorded
Medium
Object type: Other
Collection: Worcester Art Museum
Credit line: Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number: EFA.0615
Original image: 2858 × 2282 px
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License evidence: See the license

Cite this object

Nicolas-Guy Brenet. Sleeping Endymion. 1756. Worcester Art Museum. Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain. In The Secret Cabinet, https://thesecretcabinet.com/object/ea0615/