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Tazza (footed drinking cup) with Jupiter and Io
Also titled Tazza (drinkschaal op voet) met Jupiter en Io
Adam van Vianen (I) (Utrecht, 1568–1627)
1613
- Medium
- silver (metal)
- Classification
- tazza
- Dimensions
- height 12.8 cm x diameter 19.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Depicted here is a story from the Metamorphoses (Transformations) by the Roman poet Ovid. Jupiter, the king of the gods and an incorrigible adulterer, tries to deceive his wife Juno by turning his lover Io into a beautiful white cow. Io, in the guise of a cow, reclines at the left, while high up in the sky Juno approaches in her peacock-driven chariot.
