Fornasetti,Piero (1913-1988), ‘With horns’, no 263 in the series ‘Tema e Variazioni’, porcelain, d. 26 cm.
This plate is made by Piero Fornasetti with the iconic female face he used in over 500 variations. It depicts the soprano Lina Cavalieri, a face he found in a 19th-century magazine.
She wears horns, so who is she. Can she be Io? The unfortunate princess Zeus got a crush on. When his envious spous Hera discovered the love affaire, Zeus turned the princess into a white cow.
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