Fall of the Giants, Jupiter in the clouds overhead striking the Giants

An engraving in dense, parallel hatching showing Jupiter enthroned among clouds at upper center, hurling lightning down at the fallen figures below. Muscular nude giants sprawl, twist and collapse across the lower foreground in a tangle of limbs, while a distant landscape and onlookers fill the middle band.

Look closer: A peacock perches at the lower left edge, a reference to Juno's bird.

Artist

Girolamo Fagiuoli

Date

ca. 1539–49

Medium

Engraving

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

4000 × 2387 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949