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Neptune calming the waves ('Quos Ego')
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Neptune calming the waves ('Quos Ego')

Giulio Bonasone · 1531 - 1570 · engraving; paper

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

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Neptune is drawn on a shell by sea creatures (half horse, half fish). He tries to calm a storm that is destroying the fleet of Aeneas. In the foreground on the left various naked swimmers clinging to a rock.

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Credit lineNeptunus kalmeert de golven (‘Quos Ego’). 1531 - 1570. Giulio Bonasone. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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