Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Prometheus / Forming the first man

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Lyon 1532 / Part 1 (Books I-V)

Further details

The woodcut, chosen here to illustrate the creation of man, is actually a copy of the woodcut in the 1497 Venice edition used to illustrate the myth of Peleus and Thetis.

Artist or creator

anonymous

Date

1532

Location

.., Blank

Associated persons

Ian Jones (Photographer (digital))

Book, text or document (source of image)

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso). Le Grand Olympe des histoires poëtiques du prince de poësie Ovide Naso en sa métamorphose. Lyon (Romain Morin) (USTC 49832). 1532. Folio: 5v.

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Photo on external webpage

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This material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial 3.0 Unported License

Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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