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Luca Giordano, frescoes in the gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence, 1684-1686. Detail depicting Iris, who in Greek mythology is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods. Ovid, from Metamorposes 1, The thunder crashed and storms of blinding rain poured down from heaven. Iris, great Juno’s envoy, rainbow-clad, gathered the waters and refilled the clouds.

Luca Giordano, frescoes in the gallery of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi in Florence, 1684-1686. Detail depicting Iris, who in Greek mythology is the personification of the rainbow and messenger of the gods.

Ovid, from Metamorposes 1, The thunder crashed and storms of blinding rain poured down from heaven. Iris, great Juno’s envoy, rainbow-clad, gathered the waters and refilled the clouds.