An engraving titled "Tantalus," by the Italian printmaker Giulio Sanuto, ca. 1557 to 1570. Tantalus is shown as the mythic king condemned in the underworld to stand in water beneath fruit he can never reach, punished for offenses against the gods including serving his own son Pelops to them at a feast. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints department, under accession 53.601.341.
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