ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

The Loves of the Gods (Carracci)

Okay kiddo, imagine the gods were like people, and they also loved each other. There were lots of different gods, and they all had different girlfriends and boyfriends.

For example, there was Venus, the goddess of love, and she was married to the god Vulcan, but she had a boyfriend named Mars, the god of war.

Then there was Apollo, the god of music and the sun, and he had a girlfriend named Daphne, who he loved so much that he turned her into a tree to keep her close to him.

And there was Bacchus, the god of wine, who had a wife named Ariadne, but he also loved a beautiful mortal named Ariadne.

All of these stories were painted by the artist Carracci, and they were put together in a big painting called "The Loves of the Gods". It's like a big storybook full of all the different love stories of the gods.