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Proserpina with Flowers
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Proserpina with Flowers

Jacob Binck · 1530 · engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Proserpina holding the flowers she picked in the meadow just before she was abducted by Pluto, god of the underworld. Below the niche is the inscription SVM DEA TARTAREI CONIVX PROSERRINA REGIS, identifying her as the wife of Pluto, king of Tartarus. Copy after a print by Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio.

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Credit lineProserpina met bloemen. 1530. Jacob Binck. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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