Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Acis and Galatea / Acis and Galatea, with Polyphemus piping
Anius / Daughters of Anius turned into doves
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The fate of the arms of Achilles / Contest between Ajax and Ulysses
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The fate of the arms of Achilles / Ajax committing suicide
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Death of Astyanax / Andromache pleading for the life of Astyanax
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Death of Polydorus / Polymestor killing and dismembering Polydorus
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / The ghost of Achilles demands that Polyxena be sacrificed
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Sacrifice of Polyxena / Neoptolemus sacrificing Polyxena at Achilles's tomb / Hecuba (or other mourners) present
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Trojan women taken prisoner / Cassandra / Miscellaneous
Historia Troiana / The War of Troy / Main episodes / The sack of Troy / Miscellaneous

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Rouen 1626 (copies after Merian after Gaultier after Franco)
Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Book XIII
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book II: Aeneas recounts the sack of Troy / vv. 721-741: Aeneas fleeing Troy / With Anchises and Ascanius / With the Fall of Troy in the background

Further details

Huber-Rebenich sees in the woman being made prisoner on the burning balcony Cassandra, based on Anguillara's Italian translation of the Metamorphoses (1581), Bk 13, stanza 175, v. 7f.

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, B136

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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