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Title
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Aretusa cuenta a Ceres que Pluton se habia llevado a su hija Proserpina
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Description
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This image depicts the nymph Arethusa emerging out of the water to tell the goddess Ceres that her daughter had been abducted by Pluto. Ceres is holding out her right arm and using her left arm to pull on her hair as a sign of grief for her daughter. She unsuccessfully searches the world for her daughter and in her anger, she causes the world to become infertile and destroys agriculture.
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Image Creator
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D. José Assensio (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:24972
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Source Name
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Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
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Image
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mta_24972_OBJ.jpg
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Subject
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Abduction
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Ceres
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Proserpina
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Pluto
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Arethusa
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Mythology
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Gods
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Goddesses