Painting that may show Rhea deceiving Saturn, or Ceres' secret child being given to the goddess Regina and the horse Arion, or perhaps the education of Achilles according to Homer. Copperplate engraved by Tommaso Piroli from his own "Antichita di Ercolano" (Antiquities of Herculaneum), Rome, 1789. Italian artist and engraver Piroli (1752-1824) published six volumes between 1789 and 1807 documenting the murals and bronzes found in Heraculaneum and Pompeii.

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