Pierre Subleyras (1699-1749) Le duc de Saint-Aignan décorant le prince Vaini de l’ordre du Saint Esprit.

The unicorn ( Ly or Lan ) is an incredible animal invented by Sino-Vietnamese imagination. The unicorn brings to mind the English griffin; it is represented with the body of an antelope, the feet of a horse, and the tail of a buffalo; and on the head of the male unicorn, there is a single horn, the extremity of which is covered with an excrescence of flesh. The unicorn is considered as the symbol of intelligence and goodness, and appears only on very special occasions. 

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Giovanni Battista di Jacopo (Rosso Fiorentino), Bacchus, Venus, and Cupid, c. 1531

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Orazio Riminaldi, Juno and Argus, c. 1617

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Daniel Sarrabat, Mercury and Argus, late 17th or early 18th century

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Giuseppe Cesari (Cavaliere d’Aripino), Daedalus and Icarus, late 16th or early 17th century

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After Friedrich August von Kaulbach (1850 - 1920) - Die Lautenspielerin

A Berlin style porcelain plaque

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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein, Brutus Discovers the Names of His Sons on the List of Conspirators and Sentences Them to Death, 1785

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Benjamin West, Hector Censoring Paris and Helen, 1820

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Carlo Saraceni, Venus and Mars, c. 1600

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia by François Perrier

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Annibale Carracci, The Rape of Ganymede, 17th century

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“Juno Hearing Peacock’s Complaint” 1910

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Zeus seduces Olympias (1526-1534) is a fresco by Giulio Romano