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Tiresias Strikes Two Mating Snakes
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Tiresias strikes two copulating snakes in a forest. Thereupon he changes into a woman. In the background, eight autumns later, he strikes the same snakes in the guise of a woman to change back into his male body. Below the representation, two times two lines of verse in Latin. The print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineTiiresias slaat twee parende slangen. 1615. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
