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GODS AND MYTHS

Aurora / Myths / Aurora and Memnon / Aurora begs Jupiter to honour the dead Memnon
Aurora / Myths / Aurora and Memnon / Birds rise from Memnon's funerary pyre

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Antwerp 1606 (Antonio Tempesta)

Further details

Artist or creator

Tempesta, Antonio (1555-1630)

Date

1606

Location

London, British Museum (Dept. of Prints and Drawings)

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Metamorphoseon sive Transformationum Ovidianarum libri quindecim, aeneis formis ab Antonio Tempesta Florentino incisi.... Antwerp. 1606. Plate: 125.
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Notes on photograph

Project

Bartsch

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British Museum

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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