Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Athamas and Ino / Ino throws herself and Melicertes into the sea
Atlas / Myths / Atlas turned to stone by Perseus
Clytie
Hermaphrodite / Hermaphroditus and Salmacis / Salmacis embracing Hermaphroditus
Historia Thebana / The story of Cadmus / Cadmus and Harmonia changed into serpents
Leucothoe / Leucothoe transformed into an incense-tree
Minyas, daughters of / Myths / Working during the feast of Bacchus
Minyas, daughters of / Myths / Turned into bats
Pyramus and Thisbe / Suicide of Thisbe

LITERATURE

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

Further details

Artist or creator

Blanchin, Jean (active Paris, first half 17th century) Close copy after an engraving by Matthäus Merian (used in the edition Frankfurt 1619), which is based on the engravings by Gaultier (used in the edition Paris 1606), which in turn copies the illustrations by Giacomo Franco for the Venice 1584 edition

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.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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