On a sea chariot sits Cupid. His chariot carries Jupiter, the prototype of the adulterer and conqueror. Before the chariot walk classical poets who wrote about love: Marcellus, Ovid and Tibullus. Next to the chariot follow victims of love: Solomon, Hercules, Pyramus and Thisbe. The procession is on its way to the temple of the goddess of love, Venus, on the left in the background. The print has a Latin caption and is part of the series on the triumphs of Petrarch, Triumph of Love Triumphs of Petrarch (series title), print maker: Philips Galle, Maarten van Heemskerck, (mentioned on object

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