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GODS AND MYTHS

Orpheus / Myths / Orpheus and Eurydice / Death of Eurydice / Eurydice bitten by the snake / Miscellaneous

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Venice 1497

Further details

This engraving in the 1510 edition of Ovid's Methamophoses is also used to illustrate the episode of Orpheus and Eurydice.

Artist or creator

Venetian

Date

1497

Location

Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Ovidio metamorphoseos vulgare (translated by Giovanni Bonsignore, GW M28952). Venice (Rubeus for Giunta). 1497. Folio: 83v.
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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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