Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right

A dense woodcut-style print shows Pluto driving a chariot through a churning, rocky landscape while a woman is seized beside him. Horses surge forward at right, their manes and bodies tangled with wave-like forms under a sky of swirling clouds.

Look closer: The artist's name and a date are inscribed in small script in the bottom margin.

Artist

Giuseppe Scolari

Date

1590–1607

Medium

Woodcut

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

2903 × 3885 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1922