. Niobe dressed in a blue jacket of 14th century Lucca brocate, trimmed with ermine, followed by towing carriers and servants, appeals to a group of women and children. On the center plan a burning altar on which a golden image of Latona with the twins. On the left is a priest, which brings a pill vessel, about sacrificing and blowing women. Links Divine retribution: Niobe's flighted children are killed by the arrows, who shoot Apollo and Diana from the clouds on them. PAX and FAMA in the upper corners, in the down corners two mythological figures: links Mars et Venus; Jupiter et calisto right
. Niobe dressed in a blue jacket of 14th century Lucca brocate, trimmed with ermine, followed by towing carriers and servants, appeals to a group of women and children. On the center plan a burning altar on which a golden image of Latona with the twins. On the left is a priest, which brings a pill vessel, about sacrificing and blowing women. Links Divine retribution: Niobe's flighted children are killed by the arrows, who shoot Apollo and Diana from the clouds on them. PAX and FAMA in the upper corners, in the down corners two mythological figures: links Mars et Venus; Jupiter et calisto right. Marked with the city mark of Delft, left in the blue downstairs zoom: H D (Holland Delft) signed between hem Midden 1610. The weaver brand is in the right blue zoom.
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