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Jupiter and Callisto
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Mythological tapestry depicting episodes from the story of Diana and Callisto (from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti), with Diana bathing with her attendants while Zeus (Jupiter), disguised as Diana, lies with Callisto. The figures are small in relation to the landscape, and have rather blunt facial features and inelegant forms. In contrast, the landscape is superbly rendered. The borders are not quite simulated picture frames: the rectilinear moldings contain twisted acanthus leaves plaited with colorful flowers which sometimes cross illusionistically into the visual field.
Department of Paintings Sculpture & Decorative Arts
The Hearst Foundation Inc. gift; to Fogg Art Museum 1960
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum Gift of The Hearst Foundation Inc. in memory of William Randolph Hearst
Title: Jupiter and Callisto
Description:
Mythological tapestry depicting episodes from the story of Diana and Callisto (from Ovid's Metamorphoses and Fasti), with Diana bathing with her attendants while Zeus (Jupiter), disguised as Diana, lies with Callisto.
The figures are small in relation to the landscape, and have rather blunt facial features and inelegant forms.
In contrast, the landscape is superbly rendered.
The borders are not quite simulated picture frames: the rectilinear moldings contain twisted acanthus leaves plaited with colorful flowers which sometimes cross illusionistically into the visual field.
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