Five scenes from classical mythology, Five glasses with scenes from classical mythology in a wooden setting. The glass on the far left: Orpheus plays on a Renaissance violin, around him are a deer and two dogs listening. The glass to the right of it: man with spear and in classic armor, fighting a dragon. The middle glass: a man with a red cloth wrapped around with a sword pursues a female figure with wings instead of arms (probably a harpy, pursued by Boreas or Jason). The glass to the right of it: a woman, with a startled child in her arms, points to men with frog heads in a pool with reeds. (Probably the husbandmen who were turned into frogs by the goddess Latona after they had insulted her.) The glass on the far right: Hercules catches the bull of Crete. Hercules has put the bull's head to the ground and sits with his knee on his neck, Orpheus playing the lyre: trees and rocks move, beasts and birds are enchanted, Lycian farmers changed into frogs: Latona changes Lycian farmers into frogs, because while they were weeding a marsh, they prevented their children from quenching their thirst (Ovid, Metamorphoses VI 369), (7) the Cretan bull was captured by Hercules, anonymous, Netherlands, c. 1700 - c. 1790, oak (wood), glass, w 45.4 cm × l 9.3 cm × t 0.8 cm
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