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Jupiter Embracing Juno, from the Farnese Palace
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Jupiter Embracing Juno, from the Farnese Palace

Jacques Belly, after Annibale Carracci
1641
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The story

In Iliad book 14 Hera (Juno) borrows Aphrodite's girdle to seduce Zeus (Jupiter) on Mount Ida, so he will sleep and look away from the war.

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Object details

Title
Jupiter Embracing Juno, from the Farnese Palace
Artist
Jacques Belly, after Annibale Carracci
Date
1641
Culture
Italian
Medium
Etching
Object type
Prints
Collection
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (63.579.18)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License CC0.
Object number
EFA.0893
Original image
2760 × 2707 px
Source record
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License evidence
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