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Aesacus en Hesperia, Antonio Tempesta, 1606
Antonio Tempesta, portraitAntonio TempestaItalian, 1555–1630

Aesacus en Hesperia

1606 · Print

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Where is “Aesacus en Hesperia” now? Collection: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Unknown.

Rijksmuseum

Amsterdam, Netherlands

The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.

Source
The museum
On the mapMuseum page

About the work

Museum text in Dutch

Hesperia wordt doodgebeten door een slang. Aesacus rent in paniek richting Hesperia. Op de achtergrond gooit Aesacus zich uit wanhoop van een rots. Titel in het Latijn in ondermarge.

Rijksmuseum

Details

Accession number
RP-P-OB-37.885

What it shows

Aesacus changed into a diving bird: in despair for having caused the death of Hesperia (or Asterope), Aesacus throws himself into the sea and is changed into a diving bird by Tethys (Ovid, Metamorphoses XI 783)

In the catalog

PrintsBaroque17th century

Sources

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