Amor Schiet een Hert / Atlanta en hippomenes / pygmalion, monogramst MP, 1680 - print Three performances of stories from the metamorphoses on a magazine. Above: Amor shoots at a deer. Perhaps Actaeon. Middle: Atalanta and Hippomenus do a running competition. Atalanta picks up the golden apples that drops Hippomenus, causing her to lose the game. Below: Pygmalion, King of Cyprus, falls in love with the image of Venus that he has manufactured. The image comes to life. paper engraving stag-hunting. Cupid handling his weapons. during the foot-race Hippomenes drops the three golden apples; Atalant
Amor Schiet een Hert / Atlanta en hippomenes / pygmalion, monogramst MP, 1680 - print Three performances of stories from the metamorphoses on a magazine. Above: Amor shoots at a deer. Perhaps Actaeon. Middle: Atalanta and Hippomenus do a running competition. Atalanta picks up the golden apples that drops Hippomenus, causing her to lose the game. Below: Pygmalion, King of Cyprus, falls in love with the image of Venus that he has manufactured. The image comes to life. paper engraving stag-hunting. Cupid handling his weapons. during the foot-race Hippomenes drops the three golden apples; Atalante stops to pick them up, and is thus beaten. statue coming to life: at Pygmalion's prayer, a statue (latterly called Galatea) comes to life; a favour of Venus (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 280)
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