Pair Of Women Dressed In The Antique

Pair of paintings, Greco-Roman mythology representing: Flora, is a very ancient deity of central Italy, who presided over the blossoming of flowers in spring. She was one of the twelve divinities who were appeased by expiatory sacrifices, during some extraordinary event. Leda and the Swan Leda is the wife of the deposed King of Sparta Tyndareus. Zeus takes the form of a swan to seduce her. Once their embrace is over, the swan disappears and Hera realizes Zeus' infidelity and places two large eggs in Leda's body from which will be born Helen and Pollux children of Zeus, in one, and Clytemnestra and Castor , children of Tyndareus, in the other. Italian school, early 19th century, very beautiful frames