Focus on this artwork and explain the Reception and interpretation.
The French writer and painter Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) called the central image of Jupiter and Semele “this birth-death in one”. The Swedish surrealist Ragnar von Holten (1934–2009) described the work as “an allegory of regeneration by death”.The theme of Jupiter and Semele has also been interpreted by the painters Jacopo Tintoretto  (ca. 1545) and Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Colleville (ca. 1760).
Jupiter French Jacopo Tintoretto Semele Tintoretto Malcolm de Chazal Jean-Baptiste Deshays de Colleville Ragnar von Holten