#grande scena mitologica

A large Flemish painting from the mid-18th century. Oil on canvas work depicting a famous episode narrated in Ovid's Metamorphoses. Jupiter and Mercury, disguised as travelers, are rejected by all the inhabitants of a region except for an elderly farming couple, Philemon and Baucis. At that moment a miracle occurs: the wine does not run out, the table seems to renew itself. At the foot of the table appears the goose, the couple's only animal, which the elderly still wish to offer.But the animal,...