Two women embrace passionately, but all is not as it seems. The woman at left appears to be Diana, Roman goddess of the hunt, yet is actually the god Jupiter, who morphed into Diana’s figure to seduce Callisto, one of her intimate female companions. In another scene, shown in the distance, Juno, Jupiter’s wife, takes out her rage on the duped Callisto rather than on her deceitful husband. During the 1600s, the narrative of Jupiter and Callisto attracted the attention of male artists and art buyers. They were titillated by the opportunity to view erotic scenes of women with other women, with a winking nod to the "real" identity of Jupiter beneath his disguise. Women’s writings from the same era reveal that some women identified with visual portrayals like this one for their own expressions of same-sex desire.