Atalanta, Greek virgin heroine from Boeotia, daughter of King Shoenues, famous for her speed in foot racing and her race against Hippomenes. Depicted with loose hair as if running. Atalanta. Copperplate engraving by Guillaume Vallet after Giovanni Angelo Canini from Iconografia, cioe disegni d'imagini de famosissimi monarchi, regi, filososi, poeti ed oratori dell' Antichita, Drawings of images of famous monarchs, kings, philosophers, poets and orators of Antiquity, Ignatio de’Lazari, Rome, 1699.

---

Size: 5043px × 6611px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 1699, 17th, angelo, antichita, antiquity, atalanta, boeotia, canini, celebrity, century, cioe, classical, copperplate, daughter, de, dell, de’lazari, dimagini, disegni, drawings, ed, engraving, fame, famosissimi, famous, filososi, foot, giovanni, greek, guillaume, hair, hero, heroine, hippomenes, history, iconografia, ignatio, image, king, loose, monarch, monarchi, myth, mythology, orator, oratori, philosopher, poet, poeti, portrait, race, racing, regi, roman, rome, runner, running, shoenues, speed, vallet, virgin