Baroque culture transforms and attributes new functions to objects. This is not a simple frame, but in fact hosts a mythological scene in dialogue with the painting it contains. On either side of the picture, the Greek goddesses Hera and Athena await the result of a beauty contest. At the top right the shepherd Paris, judge of the competition, indicates the winner: Venus, or the figure portrayed in the painting. Perhaps originally the frame contained a mirror. Each spectator would thus become, looking at the work, the temporary protagonist of the narration.