The Seven Boys of the Pleiades
A surreal artistic rendering of seven boys from a painting by Francis Floris (1519-1570), a Flemish painter and artist. The painting is an allegory (a common trait in Floris's paintings) of the Pleiades, a star cluster of seven stars that have become enshrined in a massive range of mythological tales around the world, perhaps most famously as the Seven Sisters, the daughters of Atlas and Pleione in Greek Mythology
Picture No
13743549
Media ID
46788765
Size
4931px x 5000px
(7.7MB)
Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
unattributed print from painting by Francis Floris (1519-1570), The Graphic, 26th December 1885, p. 713
Date
1885
