Diana en Actaeon Actaeon in ceruum (titel op object) Prince Actaeon caught Diana and her nymphs while they to bathe. As punishment, he is transformed by Diana into a stag, Where: after he by his own hounds is verscheurd. Manufacturer : printmaker: Virgil Solis (listed building) Publisher: Georg Rabuitgever Sigmund Feyerabenduitgever: inherit Weigand HanPlaats manufacture: printmaker: Nürnberg Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Date: 1569 Physical features: woodcut; text in the letterpress on recto and verso material: paper Technique: wood blo


Diana en Actaeon Actaeon in ceruum (titel op object) Prince Actaeon caught Diana and her nymphs while they to bathe. As punishment, he is transformed by Diana into a stag, Where: after he by his own hounds is verscheurd. Manufacturer : printmaker: Virgil Solis (listed building) Publisher: Georg Rabuitgever Sigmund Feyerabenduitgever: inherit Weigand HanPlaats manufacture: printmaker: Nürnberg Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Date: 1569 Physical features: woodcut; text in the letterpress on recto and verso material: paper Technique: wood block dimensions: image: h 80 mm (diagram) × W 60 mm (diagram) × H 101 mm (ornament edge) × W 133 mm (ornament edge) Surface: H 150 mm × W 183 mmToelichtingIllustratie in Ovid's Metamorphoses, coming from the publication: Posthius, John. Tetrasticha in Ovidii metam. Frankfurt am Main: Georg Rab and Sigmund Feyerabend and inherit Weigand Han, 1569. The performances and ornament borders of these book illustrations were printed on two separate blocks. Both were separately used for other publications, and the ornament borders were also gebruikt. Subject several times in this publication: scrollwork, strap work ~ ornamentActaeon changed into a stag: as punishment for seeing her bathe, Diana changes Actaeon, the hunter, into a tag (Ovid, Metamorphoses III 193)


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