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Vertumnus and Pomona
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Vertumnus and Pomona

Francesco Melzi
c. 1518 to 1528
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The story

In Ovid's Metamorphoses (book 14) the garden god Vertumnus, refused by the orchard nymph Pomona, visits her disguised as an old woman, praises her and pleads his own case; when he drops the disguise she yields.

Source, Theoi

Object details

Title
Vertumnus and Pomona
Artist
Francesco Melzi
Date
c. 1518 to 1528
Culture
Not recorded
Medium
Oil on panel
Object type
Paintings
Collection
Gemäldegalerie, Berlin (222)
Credit line
Image source Wikimedia Commons. License Public domain.
Object number
EFA.0905
Original image
2233 × 3000 px
Source record
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License evidence
See the license

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