Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Callisto / Myths / Callisto and Arcas transferred to the stars
Jupiter / With other figures / Venus / Alone
Venus / Myths / Venus asks Jupiter to make Aeneas immortal

LITERATURE

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

Further details

The woodcut was originally created to illustrate an edition of the Aeneid, and is re-used here to illustrate both the episode of Callisto's transformation in a constellation. It is also found in part 3, f. 15v.

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: 27v.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

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