Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730 René Antoine Houasse French Maidens gathering flowers are plunged into disarray as, drapery billowing, winged Boreas, god of the North Wind, wraps Orithyia, a mortal princess of Athens, in his burly arms. Frustrated by her fathers refusal to approve his marriage request, Boreas carries her off regardless, in a sharp diagonal thrust out of the picture plane, towards his home in Thrace. This tapestry was made as part of a popular series, eventually numbering eight or nine episodes, illustrating scenes from the Roman poet Ovids Metamorphoses, a lengthy, magical poem loosely narrating a Classical history of the world.. Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses 229567

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Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses designed ca. 1690, woven before 1730 René Antoine Houasse French Maidens gathering flowers are plunged into disarray as, drapery billowing, winged Boreas, god of the North Wind, wraps Orithyia, a mortal princess of Athens, in his burly arms. Frustrated by her fathers refusal to approve his marriage request, Boreas carries her off regardless, in a sharp diagonal thrust out of the picture plane, towards his home in Thrace. This tapestry was made as part of a popular series, eventually numbering eight or nine episodes, illustrating scenes from the Roman poet Ovids Metamorphoses, a lengthy, magical poem loosely narrating a Classical history of the world.. Boreas and Orithyia from a set of scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses 229567

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