St. Simon, from "Christ, the Apostles and St. Paul with the Creed"

Jupiter sits at a table where a platter of human limbs is served, his hand raised in a gesture of divine judgment as fire consumes the palace. To the right, Lycaon flees with a transforming wolf's head, while Jupiter's eagle sits beneath the table. The scene is rendered with the dramatic muscularity and dynamic line work characteristic of late 16th-century printmaking.

This scene from Ovid's Metamorphoses illustrates the Renaissance philosophical interest in the fluid boundary between human and animal nature. Within the Neoplatonic tradition, such physical transformations were interpreted as allegories for the soul's descent into bestiality through the abandonment of reason.