Figures – Vertumnus and Pomona

Vertumnus and Pomona, Laurent Delvaux, c. 1725

‘Vertumnus was the shape-shifting Roman god of seasons.  He tricked the nymph Pomona into talking to him by disguising himself as an old woman, but then removed his mask.’  Victoria and Albert Museum

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