Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Aegeus / Aegeus hurls himself into the sea
Apollo / Worship / Temple of Apollo
Arachne / Competition with Minerva
Daedalus / Daedalus and Icarus / Daedalus flying
Daedalus / Daedalus and Icarus / The fall of Icarus
Daedalus / Daedalus and Icarus / After the fall
Historia Thebana / The story of Cadmus / The Delphian oracle instructs Cadmus to follow a heifer
Pasiphaë
Theseus / Myths / Theseus kills the Minotaur
Theseus / Myths / Theseus is thanked by the Athenians for killing the Minotaur

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Lyon 1532 / Part 2 (Books VI-X)
Ancient / Vergil / Aeneid / Book VI: Aeneas in the underworld / vv. 5-8: The Trojans land in Cumae

Further details

The woodcut was originally created to illustrate an edition of the Aeneid, and is re-used to illustrate Arachne's weaving. It is also used to illustrate Cadmus's visit to the temple of Apollo in Delphi, Part 1, f.38r.

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: 4r.

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Acknowledgements

Record created with the generous support of the Kress foundation

Contact

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