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The subject of Cephalus and Aurora comes from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. Aurora, the goddess of light or dawn, steps down from her chariot to embrace Cephalus, a huntsman whom she was trying to abduct. The painting is a modello (oil sketch) for one of a seri
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