Circe Verandert Pico in Een Vogel, Antonio Tempesta, 1606 print Circe punishes Picus by turning him into a bird. Behind Circe is a boar. Title in Latin in STUDMARGE. Antwerp paper etching Picus changed into a woodpecker: Circe changes Picus into a woodpecker because, faithful to his wife Canens, he spurns the love of the goddess (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 386)

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