Apollo Killing Coronis

This engraving illustrates the Ovidian myth of Apollo punishing the nymph Coronis for her infidelity, an act spurred by the tattling of a raven. Apollo stands to the right, his bow still drawn, while Coronis falls backward in the left foreground with an arrow piercing her chest. In the middle ground, a group of figures gathers around the flames of a funeral pyre, marking the tragic conclusion of the god's wrath.

The scene serves as a classical moral exemplum regarding the destructive power of truth and jealousy, themes frequently explored in Renaissance Neoplatonic commentaries on Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' as allegories for the soul's discord.