Unchanged by any teller — how the centuries since have seen Ida.
The gallery
The Childhood of Jupiter
Andrea Schiavone, c. 1560
Schiavone’s Venetian canvas of infant Zeus among Cretan nurses and Curetes — the Dictaean cave milieu where Apollodorus places Ida and Adrasteia. Mannerist colour keeps the mountain-nymph’s world even when the title names the child, not the nurse.