EFM 0032 | According to Ovid Latona is the mother of Apollo

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Postcard - ‘According to Ovid Latona is the mother of Apollo and Diana, or the sun and the moon’. 

According to Ovid Latona is the mother of Apollo and Diana, or the sun and the moon. She had dark stains in her face which should be washed away: interpreted alchemically she turns into white lead then. Michael Maier (1568-1622) describes phases from the alchemical process in Atalanta fugiens, 1618.

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EFM 0032
There is a brief explanation of the image on the reverse of the card.
Size: 105x150 mm
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