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"Grotesque Panels" with Rape of Ganymede

"Grotesque Panels" with Rape of Ganymede

Artistafter Enea Vico (Italian, 1523-1567)
Dateabout 1550-1560
Mediumetching
ClassificationPrints
Credit LineGift of Mrs. W. H. Snyder
Object number
1917.53
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Label TextThe scene depicted on this ornamental print is from the ancient Greek myth of Ganymede, a youth whose beauty caused the god Zeus to fall in love with him and abduct him to Olympus (another meaning of the word “rape” is to forcefully abduct and is often used in this sense in Greek mythology).

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