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MENGS, Anton Raphael: Jupiter and Ganymede

🖼 Jupiter and Ganymede, 1758-59
Fresco transferred to canvas
180 × 140 cm
Rome, Italy

Golden light bathes two figures in cloud-wreathed sky as an eagle sweeps downward, muscles tensed mid-abduction. Mengs captures this mythological rape with Baroque drama and sensuous brushwork, transforming classical subject matter into intimate, emotionally charged theater.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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