Allegorical title page with different scenes from the metamorphoses of Ovidius and his portrait, Bernard Picart, 1731 print Allegorical performance with different scenes and metamorphoses from the book of Ovidius. Among other things, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in the foreground, Narcissus who falls in love with his own mirror image and Leda seduced by Jupiter in the form of a swan. In the middle Vertumnus as an old woman and pomona, Apollo and Daphne, Pan and Syrinx. In the background Pluto and Proserpina, Perseus and the Monster, the fall of Icarus. In the sky on a cloud of Venus in her car,
Allegorical title page with different scenes from the metamorphoses of Ovidius and his portrait, Bernard Picart, 1731 print Allegorical performance with different scenes and metamorphoses from the book of Ovidius. Among other things, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus in the foreground, Narcissus who falls in love with his own mirror image and Leda seduced by Jupiter in the form of a swan. In the middle Vertumnus as an old woman and pomona, Apollo and Daphne, Pan and Syrinx. In the background Pluto and Proserpina, Perseus and the Monster, the fall of Icarus. In the sky on a cloud of Venus in her car, pulled through a swan. At the top in a medallion under a garland the portrait of the writer Publius Ovidius Naso. Under the show an empty cartouche. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving title-page. metamorphoses ~ classical mythology. story of Hermaphroditus and Salmacis
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