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Jupiter Assaults Io
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Jupiter violates Io. On the left in the background, Io has been turned into a cow by Jupiter. Juno approaches the couple armed with peacocks, and interrogates her husband about the animal. Below the image two times two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints depicting stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the first series.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineJupiter vergrijpt zich aan Io. 1589. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
