Vulcan, Neptune, Athena and other Gods making Shackles to pull Jupiter from the Heavens, set within an elaborate frame, from "Loves, Rages and Jealousies of Juno"
1531–76
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
sheet: 5 5/16 x 4 in. (13.5 x 10.2 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949
Accession Number
49.97.289
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold *Vulcan, Neptune, Athena and other Gods makingles to pull Jupiter from Heavens*, a captivating 16th-century engraving Italian artist Giulio Bonasone (ca. 1500/10–after 1576). Part of the series *Loves, Rages and Jealousies of*, this print dramatizes a tumultuous mythological episode where Vulcan, Neptune, Athena, fellow deities forge chains in a plot against Jupiter, fueled by Juno's divine wrath. Bonasone, a master engraver influenced by Mannerism, captures the gods amid swirling activity—hammering, plotting, and surrounded by symbolic birds and expressive faces—within an ornate frame ...
About the Artist
Giulio Bonasone · 1500–1600
Comment on works: History; Mythology