(photo on external web page)
Iconography
GODS & MYTHS
Historia Troiana
→ The Aftermath of the War → Aeneas → Apotheosis of Aeneas
LITERATURE
Ancient
→ Ovid → Metamorphoses → Cycles → Cologne 1607 (de Passe, partially after Goltzius and de Vos)
→ Vergil → Aeneid → Book IX: In Aeneas's absence, Turnus attacks in vain the Trojan camp → vv. 117-122 (also Ov. Met. XIV, 545-565): After Turnus set fire to the Trojan's ships, Cybele turns them into nymphs
Further details
ARTIST/CREATOR
Passe, Crispijn van de, the Elder (c1565-1637)
DATE
1602 - 1604
LOCATION
n/a
TEXT/BOOK/DOCUMENT (SOURCE OF PHOTO)
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) → P. Ovid. Nasonis XV. Metamorphoseon librorum figurae elegantissime a Crispiano Passaeo laminis aeneis incisae (VD17 23:263857Y), Coloniae (Passaeus); Arnhemiae (Janssonius), 1607, plate 123
Notes on photograph
COLLECTION
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek
Acknowledgements
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