Val van Phaëthon, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print The ride of Phaëthon in the solar car of his father Apollo will be a disastrous trip. The horses have set the earth on fire. River beds will be dry and river nymphs complain their destiny. Neptunus with trident comes up from the sea and stretches his arm to heaven. Mother Earth, with city crown depicted as a cybele, sticks her head out of the earth and protects her gaze with one hand. Atlas is struggling to show the heavenly vault. Jupiter throws lightning bolts and Phaëthon falls by car and all from heaven.
Val van Phaëthon, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), after Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print The ride of Phaëthon in the solar car of his father Apollo will be a disastrous trip. The horses have set the earth on fire. River beds will be dry and river nymphs complain their destiny. Neptunus with trident comes up from the sea and stretches his arm to heaven. Mother Earth, with city crown depicted as a cybele, sticks her head out of the earth and protects her gaze with one hand. Atlas is struggling to show the heavenly vault. Jupiter throws lightning bolts and Phaëthon falls by car and all from heaven. Two times two lines of Latin text under the performance. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that represent stories from Ovid's metamorphoses. This series falls into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series. Haarlem paper engraving fall of Phaethon; he is struck by a thunderbolt of Jupiter
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