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Barolsky, Paul

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Acknowledgements

Paul Barolsky

Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso

Acknowledgements

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Paul Barolsky

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00090.001

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16277

Acknowledgements

I cannot properly acknowledge here the countless friends, colleagues, and students who have contributed to the present work. I need, however, to single out and thank especially several individuals: John F. Miller, Ovid scholar par excellence, who over the years has answered a million questions (at least!); Nicholas Poburko, managing editor of Arion, who during a long period of collaboration has sustained my musings on Ovid with good humor and enthusiasm; Laurie Schneider Adams, who has supported many early Ovidian meditations in the pages of the journal Source, of which she is editor; Eve d’Ambra, who introduced me to ancient Roman dolls; Jessica Feldman, who read the manuscript of this book at a crucial juncture and offered invaluable and encouraging advice; Francesca Fiorani, chair of the McIntire Department of Art at the University of Virginia, who has provided me with generous financial and moral support; Leslie Rahuba, director of the McIntire Department of Art’s Visual Resources Collection, who has been unfailingly kind in countless ways; assistant director of the VRC, Dan Weiss, who has exhibited remarkable patience and good cheer as he tracked down the images illustrated herein; Gillian Malpass at Yale University Press, who has provided more than a little esprit in the making of this book; and, finally, my wife, Ruth, who assured me that this book would happen, when I had my doubts. She knew better.

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BOOKOvid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso

Paul Barolsky

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00090

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-16276

Written in the spirit of Ovid (43 B.C–A.D. 1718), this book traces the art derived from Ovid’s Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for centuries, great artists have drawn, painted, and sculpted its stories, the artists often responding not only to Ovid’s work but to one another’s in their depictions. Paul Barolsky, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and literature, explores Ovid’s unparalleled influence on the visual arts, discussing works by many of the most famous artists of the past six centuries. Broadly interdisciplinary, the new understanding of the themes of the Metamorphoses revealed here will appeal to those in the fields of Renaissance art, humanism, literature, history, and classics, among others. Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso is a meditation on what words can achieve that images cannot, and conversely what images can show that words cannot tell.

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Paul Barolsky

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date November 2014 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300196696

EISBN 9780300238150

Illustrations 119 Illus.

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