Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Actaeon / Diana and Actaeon / Actaeon transformed / Actaeon with a stag's head
Bacchus / Myths / Bacchus and the pirates
Historia Thebana / The story of Cadmus / Cadmus kills the dragon
Historia Thebana / The story of Cadmus / Cadmus sowing the dragon's teeth
Narcissus / Myths / Narcissus gazing at his reflection in the water / Alone
Pentheus / Myths / Death of Pentheus / Dismembered by Bacchantes
Semele / Juno counsels Semele to ask Jupiter to appear in his full splendour
Tiresias / Tiresias strikes two mating snakes and is turned into a woman

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Rouen 1626 (copies after Merian after Gaultier after Franco)
Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Book III

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Animals / Snake / Mating

Further details

Close copy after an engraving by Matthäus Merian (used in the edition Frankfurt 1619), which is based on an engraving by Gaultier (used in the edition Paris 1606), which in turn copies the illustration by Giacomo Franco for the Venice 1584 edition

Artist or creator

Blanchin, Jean (active Paris, first half 17th century)

Date

1626

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Les Metamorphoses d'Ovide traduites en prose Françoise. Rouen (Berthelin). 1626.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Ikonographisches Repertorium zu den Metamorphosen des Ovid, vol. 1: Sammeldarstellungen, Berlin 2004, no. E17, B31

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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