Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Arethusa / Chased by Alpheus
Lyncus
Muses / Myths / Contest with the Pierides
Perseus / Myths / Perseus and Andromeda / Wedding-feast of Perseus / Followers of Phineus turned to stone
Proserpina / Myths / Pluto and Proserpina / The rape of Proserpina / The Oceanides turned into Sirens
Proserpina / Myths / Pluto and Proserpina / Ceres searching for Proserpina / Cyane dissolving herself
Proserpina / Myths / Pluto and Proserpina / Ceres searching for Proserpina / Ceres turning Stellio into a lizard

LITERATURE

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

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.

Notes on photograph

Bibliographic Citation

Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Ikonographisches Repertorium zu den Metamorphosen des Ovid, vol. 1: Sammeldarstellungen, Berlin 2004, no. E17, B52

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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