Iconography

GODS AND MYTHS

Arachne / Competition with Minerva

LITERATURE

Ancient / Ovid / Metamorphoses / Cycles / Lyon 1532 / Part 2 (Books VI-X)

MAGIC AND SCIENCE

Flora and Fauna / Monsters / Miscellaneous

SOCIAL LIFE

Authors, scholars and philosophers / Scholar in their studio

UNIDENTIFIED ICONOGRAPHIES

Miscellaneous

Further details

The woodcut should be depicting the moment Pallas transforms Archane into a spider, however it does not appear to be directly related to this particular episode. The man fighting the monster appears to be wearing an animal skin, like Hercules and sometimes Cadmus.

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: 4v.

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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

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