Jupiter and Astraea, ca. 1545–50, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache, on paper tinted with a thin brown wash, Sheet: 6 1/4 x 9 1/8 in. (15.9 x 23.1 cm), Drawings, Giulio Campi (Italian, Cremona 1502–1572), According to Ovid's 'Metamorphoses,' the most consulted mythological text in the Renaissance, when human wickedness forced the Gods to abandon the earthly realm, Astraea, the goddess of Justice, was the last to flee to the heavens where she transformed into the constellation Virgo
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Jupiter, Astraea, ca, 1545–50, Pen, brown ink, brush, wash, highlighted, white gouache, paper tinted, thin brown, Sheet, 6 1/4 x 9 1/8, 15.9 23.1 cm, Drawings, Giulio Campi, Italian, Cremona, 1502–1572, According, Ovid, Metamorphoses, consulted mythological text, Renaissance, human wickedness, forced, Gods, abandon, earthly realm, goddess, Justice, last, flee, heavens, transformed, constellation Virgo
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