Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Prometheus / Forming the first man

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Venice 1509 (only few woodcuts, copies after Venice 1497)

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Time / Ages of the world / Four / Silver
Time / Ages of the world / Four / Iron

Further details

The woodcut is a copy of the woodcut in the 1497 edition (Essing 223) - in contrast to most illustrations in this volume it was not made for an edition in 1517 but already in 1509 (Essling 228); it shows the Creation of Man and the silver (Agriculture, Houses) and the iron ages (warfar, ships)

Artist or creator

Venetian

Date

1509

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). P. Ovidii Metamorphoseos vulgare. Venice (Rusconi). 1522. Folio: 2r.
View this reference in the Warburg library catalogue, or as a Warburg digital facsimile.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Victor Masséna prince d'Essling, Etudes sur l'art de la gravure sur bois à Venise, vol. 1, Florence 1907, p. 233, no. 235

Rights and Permissions

This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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