Stories, myths and legends

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Unlock the stories behind the collection's paintings – discover a world of myth and meaning

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Unlock the creation myths packed into this painting by Tintoretto – find out how Jupiter's ambitions for his son Hercules inadvertently forced the goddess Juno to create the Milky Way. With Karly Allen, National Gallery Education.

 

From the National Gallery Podcast: Episode Twenty Eight (February 2009)

 

Find out more about Jacopo Tintoretto, The Origin of the Milky Way, about 1575

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