Salmacis and Hermaphroditus; Metamorphoses from Ovid; Den Grooten Emblemata Sacra, consisting of more than four hundred by Belsche figures, as des old as des Nieuwen Testaments. The Nymph Salmacis stands by a monument in a landscape with a palace garden. She looks up to the clouds where Mercury, Venus and Amor appear. In the background, Salmacis embraces Hermaphroditus. She falls in love with him and encourages him with so much passion that their bodies merge. Under the show the text from the metamorphoses of Ovid, book 4, fresh rules 385-386. At the top of the sign of twins from the zodiac. T
Salmacis and Hermaphroditus; Metamorphoses from Ovid; Den Grooten Emblemata Sacra, consisting of more than four hundred by Belsche figures, as des old as des Nieuwen Testaments. The Nymph Salmacis stands by a monument in a landscape with a palace garden. She looks up to the clouds where Mercury, Venus and Amor appear. In the background, Salmacis embraces Hermaphroditus. She falls in love with him and encourages him with so much passion that their bodies merge. Under the show the text from the metamorphoses of Ovid, book 4, fresh rules 385-386. At the top of the sign of twins from the zodiac. The print is part of an album.
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