Rubens's c. 1611—c. 1615 mythological painting is titled "Cupid Supplicating Jupiter". From a second-century prose narrative, it's said that Venus’s son Cupid is supplicating the king of the gods Jupiter to allow him to wed Psyche, a mortal, and bring his bride to Olympus. As a results of the request based on love, Jupiter obliges Cupid and makes Psyche immortal. Venus's heart is then said to soften towards her daughter-in-law since she is now a goddess.

This artwork by Raphael is also a composition that is said to gracefully display the painter’s knowledge of antique monuments: Jupiter's torso for example is said to suggest the Belvedere Torso, a fragment of a statue (a celebrated marble torso) found in Rome at the end of the 15th century, now in the Vatican Museums. Additionally, experts have said that the prominence and heraldic quality of Rubens's eagle in the painting might eventually provide a clue concerning the patron who asked Ruben to create "Cupid Supplicating Jupiter".

Peter Paul Rubens (June 1577 – May 1640), a Flemish artist and diplomat, ran a large workshop in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe. Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar who is accordingly famous for his inventive and dynamic paintings of religious and mythological subjects, though he also painted portraits and landscapes. He is in the 21st century regarded as one of the greatest painters of the 17th-century Baroque period.

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