O son, both arms and hands to me, and source of all my poweryou rule the gods and Jove himself
Venus, in Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.365–.369

Rape of Proserpina
Giuseppe Scolari (Vicenza late 16th century–early 17th century Venice?)
Woodcut, 2nd state; sheet 20 1/4 x 15 3/8 in. (51.4 x 39.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Rogers Fund, 1922 (22.73.3.152)

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