Art Lecture V: Woodcuts and Engravings of Ovid's Metamorphoses (from UVM Rare Book Collection, continued in Art Lecture VII)

Artist and Edition:
Anonymous: Raphael Regius (died 1520), Venice ca. 1513

Vergilius Solis (1514-1562): Johann Postius von Gemersheim, Frankfurt, 1563

Wilhelm Bauer (1600-1642): Nuremberg, 1670, 1687

Anonymous copperplate and Martin Bouche (1640-1693), and Peter Paul Bouche (born 1646) Clouwet: J.V. Vondel, translator, and Pieter DuRyer, commentator, Amsterdam, 1703

Bernard Picart (1673-1733) and other able masters: English translation from French of Abbot Banier, Amsterdam, 1732

Slide description

BOOK I

• 76-88 Creation of Man, Bauer
• 89-150 Four Ages of Man, Regius
• 152-153 Gigantomachy, Bauer
• 220-239 Lycaon, Solis
• 262-312 Flood, Regius
• 367-415 Deucalion and Pyrrha, Solis
• 434-444 Apollo and Python, Bauer
• 434-567 Apollo and Python, Apollo and Daphne, Regius
• 588-600 Io and Jupiter, Bauer
• Correggio (1494, or 1489-1534): Jupiter and Io (ca. 1530), Vienna Art Museum
• 689-712 Pan and Syrinx, Bauer
• 715-723 Argus and Mercury, Bauer

BOOK II

• 1-328 Phaethon, Regius
• 333-366 Heliades, Solis
• 401-507 Callisto, Diana, Juno, Regius
• 685-707 Battus and Mercury, Solis
• 760-786 Pallas and Envy, Picart et al.
• 787-832 Aglauros foiled, Solis
• 833-875 Europa, Regius
• Rubens, The Rape of Europa, [Prado, Madrid], a copy of Titian (ca. 1488-1576): The Rape of Europa (1559-1562), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston.
• Veronese (1528-88): The Rape of Europa

BOOK III

• 31-100 Cadmus and Serpent, Bauer
• 101-130 The Spartoi, Solis
• 138-252 Actaeon and Diana and dogs, Regius
• Titian (1487/90-1576): Death of Actaeon (n.b. Artemis shooting bow)
• 259-315 Jupiter and Semele, Solis
• 341-510 Narcissus and Echo, Regius
• 708-733 Death of Pentheus, Bauer

BOOK IV

• 55-104 Pyramus and Thisbe, Solis
• 169-189 Venus and Mars, Regius
• 285-388 Hermaphroditus and Salmacis, Solis
• 481-511 Tisiphone, Maddens, Ino and Athamas, Picart et al.
• 576-603 Cadmus and Harmonia Become Snakes, Solis
• 631-645 Atlas and Perseus, Bauer
• Master of the Mansi Magdalen: Judith and Holophernes (n.b. Judith holding the infant Hercules)
• Judith II, Klimt
• Danae, Klimt
• 668-739 Perseus and Andromeda, Solis

BOOK V

• 1-235 Perseus' Wedding Battle with Phineus, Bauer
• 391-409 Rape of Proserpina, Anonymous, Amsterdam, 1703
• 659-661 King Lyncus and Ceres, Bauer

BOOK VI

• 1-145 Arachne and Minerva, Bauer
• 146-312 Niobe, Amsterdam, 1703
• 339-381 Latona, Twins, and Frogmen, Solis
• 382-400 Marsyas, Regius
• Domenichino: 15th cent. Flaying of Marsyas
• 455-562 Rape of Philomela, Solis
• 621-647 Feast of Itys, Bauer

BOOK VII

• 149-158 Jason and the Dragon, Bauer
• 251-293 Aeson Rejuvenated, Bauer
• 297-349 Death of Pelias, Solis
• 394-397 Medea Kills Her Children, Picart et al.
• 404-424 Near Death of Theseus, Bauer
• 615-642 Myrmidons, Solis
• 835-862 Death of Procris, Bauer

BOOK VIII

• 90-100 Scylla with Lock of Nisus, Solis
• Pompeii wall painting Daedalus and Pasiphae
• 157-168 Labyrinth, Solis
• 224-230 Icarus' Death, Bauer
• 281-317 Calydonian Boar, Regius
• 451-525 Meleager's Death, Solis
• 626-678 Baucis and Philemon, Amsterdam, 1703
• 739-822 Erysichthon and Tree, Solis
• 823-878 Erysichthon Sells His Daughter, Bauer
• The Sun King - Louis XIV (From "Ballet de la Nuit-1653, Bibliotheque Nationale Cabinet des Estempes, James Anthony, French Baroque Music)

Drawings by Melissa Burns of Ovid, Metamorphoses BOOK I (Spring 1978)

• The Creation (I. 5 ff.)
• The Golden Age (I. 90 ff.)
• The Age of Silver (I. 113 ff.)
• The Bronze and Iron Ages (I. 125 ff.)
• Jove's Intervention (I. 163 ff.)
• The Story of Lycaon (I. 209 ff.)
• The Flood (I. 262 ff.)
• Deucalion and Pyrrha (I. 313 ff.)
• Apollo and Daphne (I. 452 ff.)
• Jove and Io (I. 588 ff.)

Classics 42: Mythology Slide Lectures

• Slides Lecture 1: Cosmogony and Succession of Divine Rulers
• Slides Lecture II: The Tantalids in Archaeology and Art
• Slides Lecture III: Athens and the Family of Aegeus
• Slides Lecture IV: Perseus in Art
• Slides Lecture V: Woodcuts and Engravings of Ovid's Metamorphoses (from UVM Rare Book Collection, continued in Art Lecture VII)
• Slides Lecture VI: Dionysus, Heroes, Chthonians & Satyrs in Art
• Slides Lecture VII: Woodcuts and Engravings of Ovid's Metamorphoses (from UVM Rare Book Collection, continued in Art Lecture V)
• Supplementary Slides

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