The Origin of the Milky Way
The story
Jupiter holds the infant Hercules to Juno's breast — her milk spurts upward to form the Milky Way and downward to make lilies on earth. Painted around 1575 — Tintoretto's most dynamic mythological canvas.
- Artist
- Jacopo Tintoretto
- Year
- 1575
- Period
- Renaissance
- Where it lives
- Wikidata / Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- Free to view, download & share
