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Original fileafter Hendrick Goltzius
Juno is shown seated on a bank of clouds, holding a scepter in one hand while gesturing toward herself with the other. A peacock, her sacred animal, stands behind her, and the surrounding frame features various attributes of sovereignty and abundance, including a crown, scepters, and coins. The figure exhibits the dramatic, twisting poses and muscular definition typical of the Haarlem Mannerist style.
In Renaissance Neoplatonism and natural philosophy, Juno was frequently identified with the element of Air. This engraving belongs to a series of planetary or elemental allegories used by Hendrick Goltzius to explore the relationship between classical mythology and the physical or moral world.
Ex me larga fluit foecundo copia cornu, Sum Gazis, opibus, diuitijsque potens. Et soror et coniunx Iouis, et regina Deorum In toto nulla est e par mihi Diua polo ANNEAV XVIe Siècle. PANNEAV représentant Junon, dessiné et gravé par Henri Goltzius, né à Mulbracht en 1558. (Musée Plantin-Moretus, Anvers) LETTRINE XVIIIe siècle, typographie de J. Covens et C. Mortier à Amsterdam. Phototypie Jos Maes, Anvers LITT. P. PL. 47
Translation
From me flows abundant plenty from a fecund horn, I am powerful in treasures, riches, and wealth. Both sister and wife of Jove, and queen of the Gods, In the whole sky there is no Goddess equal to me. PANEL 16th Century. PANEL representing Juno, drawn and engraved by Hendrik Goltzius, born at Mühlbracht in 1558. (Plantin-Moretus Museum, Antwerp) DROP CAP 18th century, typography by J. Covens and C. Mortier in Amsterdam. Phototype Jos Maes, Antwerp LITT. P. PL. 47
Natalis Comes, Mythologiae
Comes provides the contemporary mythographic interpretation of Juno as the element of air and the ruler of riches.
Karel van Mander
Van Mander was a contemporary and associate of Goltzius who interpreted such mythological figures in his 'Uytlegginghe op den Metamorphosis'.
Object
Engraving
mythological
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Wikimedia Commons · CC0
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.719439
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5566 × 7502 px
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May 30, 2024
March 23, 2026
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