Juno Being Worshipped by the Romans as the Goddess of Kingdoms

From the Getty Museum record

Juno, daughter of the gods Saturn and Opis, was worshipped on Samos, the island where she was raised, as the goddess and queen of heaven. There, a temple was erected with a white Parian marble statue of her on the occasion of her marriage to her twin brother Jupiter. The artist’s incorporation of a medieval—that is, for him, contemporary—setting for this scene suggests that he used images of Christian saints as his models for his compositions. The use of familiar imagery is perhaps somewhat ironic given the vehemently anti-pagan and pro-Christian tone of the text, Boccaccio’s *Concerning Famous and Noble Women*.