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List of illustrations

  • Diana and Actaeon
  • Diana and Nymphs
  • Apollo and Daphne
  • Apollo and Daphne
  • Apollo Belvedere
  • Apollo Belvedere, detail
  • Apollo and Daphne, detail of head of Apollo
  • Jupiter and Io
  • Juno Discovering Jupiter with Io
  • Pan and Syrinx
  • Mercury and Argus
  • Mercury and Argus
  • Mercury and Argus
  • Juno Receiving the Eyes of Argus from Mercury
  • Juno and Argus
  • Captive
  • Bowl
  • Bowl
  • Apollo and Daphne
  • Battle of Love and Chastity
  • Battle of Love and Chastity, detail
  • Apollo and Daphne
  • Inspiration of the Poet
  • Marcantonio Pasqualini Crowned by Apollo
  • Woman in a Garden
  • Daphne
  • Primavera
  • Rape of Persephone
  • Rape of Persephone (detail)
  • Pygmalion and Galatea
  • Pygmalion and Galatea
  • Pygmalion no. 47 from the series 'Histoire Ancienne'
  • Pygmalion and Galatea
  • Pygmalion and Galatea
  • La Tentative de l'Impossible (Attempting the Impossible)
  • Roman doll of Crepereia Tryphaena
  • Narcissus
  • Narcissus
  • Echo and Narcissus
  • Realm of Flora
  • Birth of Bacchus
  • Le Beau Narcisse
  • Metamorphosis of Narcissus
  • Hermaphroditus and the Nymph Salmacis
  • Spinario
  • Fall of Icarus
  • The House of Herse
  • Philemon and Baucis
  • Phaethon and Sol
  • The Fall of Phaethon
  • The Fall of Phaethon
  • The Fall of Phaeton
  • Phaeton's Sisters
  • Jupiter and Callisto
  • Diana and Callisto
  • Diana and Callisto
  • Diana, Actaeon, and Callisto
  • Rape of Europa
  • Rape of Europa
  • Rape of Europa
  • Rape of Europa
  • Rape of Europa
  • Pallas and Arachne
  • The Spinners, or the Fable of Arachne
  • Vulcan's Forge
  • Tereus' Banquet
  • Mars and Venus Surprised by Hephaistos
  • Recumbent Venus with Cupid
  • The Return from War: Mars Disarmed by Venus
  • Mars and Venus
  • Mars and Venus
  • Mars
  • Perseus and Andromeda
  • The Battle of Perseus and Phineus
  • Perseus and Andromeda
  • Perseus and Andromeda
  • Perseus and Andromeda
  • Andromeda
  • Andromeda
  • Perseus and Andromeda
  • Jupiter and Danae
  • Venus and Adonis
  • Venus and Adonis
  • Venus and Adonis
  • Venus and Adonis
  • Death of Adonis
  • Death of Adonis
  • Death of Procris
  • A Satyr Mourning over a Nymph
  • Cephalus and Aurora
  • Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs
  • Battle of the Lapiths and the Centaurs, detail
  • Kingdom of Pan
  • Midas and Bacchus Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
  • Midas Washing at the Source of Pactolus
  • Apollo and Pan
  • Landscape with Orpheus and Eurydice
  • The Rape of Proserpine
  • Orpheus and Eurydice
  • The Rape of Ganymede
  • The Death of Hyacinth
  • Atalanta and Hippomenes
  • Orpheus
  • Orpheus
  • The Feast of Achelous
  • Hercules and Achelous
  • Deianeira and the Centaur Nessus
  • Hercules and Achelous
  • Ceyx and Alcyone
  • Landscape with Polyphemus
  • Polyphemus
  • Triumph of Galatea
  • Polyphemus Serenades a Fleeing Galatea
  • Polyphemus Attacks Acis and Galatea
  • Achilles Discovered on Skyros
  • Achilles Discovered on Skyros
  • Vertumnus and Pomona
  • Vertumnus and Pomona
  • Jupiter and Semele
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Description: Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso
Acknowledgements
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Description: Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso
I hope that anybody who loves Ovid’s stories in Metamorphoses will look kindly upon this meditation and its celebration of both Ovid and the artists whom he inspired. I speak to art historians, students of literature, or those in the comparative arts, who reflect upon the relations between the arts...
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The question that I have repeatedly asked myself over the years as I taught Ovid and contemplated various works of art related to Metamorphoses is this: What exactly does the influence of Metamorphoses add up to in the history of art?
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Before proceeding to an appreciation of Correggio’s painting, let us recall that the picture was part of a suite of four paintings of the “Loves of Jupiter” made for the Duke of Mantua. The others are Leda and the Swan (Berlin), Danae (Rome), and the Rape of Ganymede (Vienna)...
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Bernini’s Pluto suggests Pygmalion when he seemingly presses his fingers into the flesh of his maiden, whereas what we in fact see is inert stone. Many artists have tried, however imperfectly, to capture the effect of a work of art coming alive...
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Bruegel’s painting of the fall of Icarus is surely one of the greatest and most beloved of all the works of art that Ovid inspired. The painter reminds the viewer of certain details in Ovid’s text: for example, the shepherd who rests his weight upon his crook and the ploughman working with his plough...
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In the story of Arachne’s artistic contest with Minerva, both the goddess and the maiden are accomplished weavers. For that matter, so is Ovid. Ovid famously uses a form of the same word, “deduco,” to speak of his poem as woven...
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Earlier in the sixteenth century, Sebastiano del Piombo, the Venetian artist working in Rome, painted a particularly novel picture of Venus mourning the death of Adonis (fig. 83). Sebastiano’s painting stands apart from the various pictures of Venus and Adonis that I have considered here thus far...
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A Brief Bibliographic Note
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Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso
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