Arcadian landscape with Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (Q17323884)

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genre: landscape art (Q191163)
artist: Johannes Glauber (Q1394567)
collection: Rijksmuseum (Q190804) Mauritshuis (Q221092) National Art Gallery of the Netherlands (Q23959785)
location: Rijksmuseum (Q190804)
material used: canvas (Q12321255) oil paint (Q296955)
depicts: tree (Q10884) mountain (Q8502) house (Q3947)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
RKDimages ID: 3882

catalog URL: https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/SK-A-1217

information from the Rijksmuseum catalog

keywords Hermaphroditus and Salmacis changed into a hermaphrodite: at the prayer of the fountain-nymph Salmacis, who holds the bathing Hermaphroditus closely embraced, their bodies fuse (Ovid, Metamorphoses IV 373) pastorals, Arcadian scenes when Hermaphroditus bathes in a fountain, Salmacis, the nymph of the fountain, falls in love with him

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