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A woman in a chariot arrives at the ruins of a building as the Olympian gods look down from above, in the foreground stands an armed female figure; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'

Mathäus Küsel, after Ludovico Ottaviano Burnacini

Apollo, Mercury, and the Shepherdesses, Fable X in "Fables Nouvelles"

Charles Nicolas Cochin I, After Charles Antoine Coypel, Lamotte-Houdar

The Realm of Neptune, from "Drawing Book"

Frederick Bloemaert, After Abraham Bloemaert

Pandore (Pandora)

Jacques Callot

Cupid Begging Jupiter for Mercy for Psyche

Master of the Die

Book 2, Fable 17: the Man and the Siren (L'Homme et la Sirene), from "Fables Nouvelles"

Nicolas Henry Tardieu, After Charles Antoine Coypel, Jean de La Fontaine, Lamotte-Houdar

The Resurrection

Albrecht Altdorfer

Neptune apaisant la tempête (Neptune Calming the Storm)

François Antoine Aveline, After François Boucher

Leopold I of Austria as Jupiter with his wife enthroned in the clouds, looking down on the struggling giants below

Mathäus Küsel, After Mauro Oddi

Venus tumbling with putti in the clouds, from "The Loves of the Gods"

Giulio Bonasone

Book 4, Fable 7: Pandora, from "Fables Nouvelles"

Nicolas Henry Tardieu, After Charles Antoine Coypel, Jean de La Fontaine, Lamotte-Houdar

Plate from, Nella Venuta

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin