Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Adonis / Venus and Adonis / Venus and Adonis together / Outdoors / Small figures
Atalanta / Atalanta and Hippomenes / The race of Atalanta and Hippomenes
Attis / Myths / Turned into a fir-tree
Cerastae
Cyparissus
Ganymede / Rape of Ganymede / Jupiter disguised as an eagle / Ganymede in the air
Menthe
Myrrha / Myths / Myrrha escaping from her father
Orpheus / Myths / Orpheus and Eurydice / Orpheus turning back, losing Eurydice
Propoetides
Pygmalion / Myth / Pygmalion falling in love with the statue

LITERATURE

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

Further details

The fall of Attis is not mentioned in Ovid, but in the translation by Anguillara (1581); close copy after an engraving by Matthäus Merian (edition Frankfurt 1619), based on an engraving by Gaultier (edition Paris 1606), which in turn copies an illustration by Giacomo Franco (edition Venice 1584)

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, B105

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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