Salmacis en hermaphroditus, 1653 - 1654 print The Nymph Salmacis stands in a column in a landscape with a garden. She looks up at the clouds where Mercury, Venus and Amor appear. In the background, Salmacis hugs hermaphroditus, while they are in the water, after which they would merge into a two -legged creature according to the myth. Under the show the text from the metamorphoses of Ovidius, book 4, Versrules 385-386, in Latin. At the top the sign of twins from the zodiac. The print is part of an album. paper etching Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of
Salmacis en hermaphroditus, 1653 - 1654 print The Nymph Salmacis stands in a column in a landscape with a garden. She looks up at the clouds where Mercury, Venus and Amor appear. In the background, Salmacis hugs hermaphroditus, while they are in the water, after which they would merge into a two -legged creature according to the myth. Under the show the text from the metamorphoses of Ovidius, book 4, Versrules 385-386, in Latin. At the top the sign of twins from the zodiac. The print is part of an album. paper etching Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing Hermaphroditus closely embraced, their bodies fuse (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 373). when Hermaphroditus bathes in a fountain, Salmacis, the nymph of the fountain, falls in love with him. Venus and Cupid (Cupid not being mere attribute). Gemini (zodiacal sign of May). story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
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