Geboorte Van Adonis, Girolamo Fagiuoli (ACTRUTED TO), After Francesco Salviati, 1544 print Adonis is born of a crack in the trunk of a tree (half woman half tree). The tree is his mother Myrrha, who was turned into a tree after an incestuous relationship with her father Cinyras. Around the tree are Myrrha's Min Lucina and the nymphs that provide Adonis. In the lower margin fresh in Latin. print maker: Italyafter design by: Italypublisher: Rome paper engraving birth of Adonis: the tree splits open to release the baby; the Naiads take care of him

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