Sources: "Jupiter et Semele"(1895/1896) by Gustave Moreau (1826-1898).
Comments: Here is a view of the full canvas. Moreau was a French painter in the pre-Symbolist and Symbolist movements. He is renowned for his illustrations of biblical and mythological themes and stories. According to the Greek mythology presented by Ovid in his book Metamorphoses, Semele was the illegitimate mother of Dionysus by Zeus, the father of the Greek gods, whose legal wife was Hera. Hera, of course, was angered by Zeus' dalliance with Semele, so Hera tricked Zeus into killing Semele; when she looked at him in all his magnificent glory she was killed by Zeus' tremendous lightening bolts and thunder that radiated from him. Zeus, however, saved Semele's unborn child, Dionysus, by keeping him in his thigh until the baby was born.