University of Vermont
Classics Department
Mythology
(Classics 42)
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
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
BOOK VII
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.)
Art
Lecture I
Art Lecture II
Art Lecture III
Art Lecture lV
Art Lecture V
Art Lecture VI
Art Lecture VII
Last updated: 13 January 1998
Send Comments to: Eleanor Rodgers, erodgers@uclink4.berkeley.edu
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