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GODS AND MYTHS

Cycles / Rubens and workshop, Torre de Parada (ca. 1636)
Juno / Myths / Juno and Hercules / Juno nursing Hercules: the origin of the Milky Way

Further details

sketch for the painting in the Torre de la Parada, now in the Prado; Alpers, 1971, no. 42, speculates on whether the child is Hercules or Mercury

Artist or creator

Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640)

Date

1636 - 1638

Location

Brussels, Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (inv. 4105)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Svetlana Alpers, The decoration of the Torre de la Parada (Corpus Rubenianum, 9), Brussels 1971, no. 42a

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Dean’s Development Fund, School of Advanced Study’

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