Carlo Cesio (XVII) - Giove e Giunone

The panel, marked as Table VI, depicts the intense embrace between Jupiter and Juno. The iconography refers to Book XIV of the Iliad, in which Juno adorns herself with Venus's girdle to seduce the king of gods and distract him from the fortunes of the Trojan War. Beside the bed appears the peacock's plumage with its "eyes," a sacred and unmistakable attribute of the goddess.
The sheet records on the plate the signature of the entire artistic and editorial chain of the era:
Ideation: Ann. Carac. Inv. (Annibale Carracci Invenit.
Engraving: C. Cesius fecit. (Carlo Cesio Fecit) a renowned Baroque painter and engraver (1622–1686), pupil of Pietro da Cortona.
Publisher: Arnoldo Van Westerhout formis, a reputable printer and Flemishman active in Rome from the late seventeenth to the early eighteenth century.