Jupiter and Juno: Study for the 'Furti di Giove' Tapestries, ca. 1532–35, Pen and dark brown ink with brown and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, Sheet: 17 x 15 3/4 in. (43.2 x 40 cm), Drawings, Perino del Vaga (Pietro Buonaccorsi) (Italian, Florence 1501–1547 Rome), One of Perino’s most beautiful and important drawings, this monumental depiction of the Roman gods holding hands as they recline on their marriage bed is a highly finished study for one of the woven panels in a lavish and costly set of tapestries, now lost, depicting the clandestine erotic adventures of Jupiter (the 'Furti di Giove')
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