This is an allegory of the eternal alternation of day and night. In Greek mythology Aurora, the goddess of dawn, rose from her bed every morning leaving her aged husband Titone shielding his eyes from the morning light which flows from her torch. The clouds of night roll away and the horizon lightens. A group of maidens scatter flowers.Less frivolous than many of his Rococo contemporaries, de Mura’s painting anticipates some aspects of Neo classicism.