Arcas focuses its arrow on Callisto Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title) Arcas aims his arrow at Callisto Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title) Property Type: print Serial Number: 9 / 20Objectnummer: RP-P-1882-A-6371Catalogusreferentie: The Illustrated Bartsch 59-afterHollstein Dutch 536-afterNew Hollstein Dutch 560 -1 (2) Description: Arcas, son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow at a bear, not knowing that it is his mother. That has changed fifteen years earlier form. In the background on the right shows how Jupiter mother and son before Arcas can shoot, put in the sky as constellations. A
Arcas focuses its arrow on Callisto Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title) Arcas aims his arrow at Callisto Ovid's Metamorphoses (series title) Property Type: print Serial Number: 9 / 20Objectnummer: RP-P-1882-A-6371Catalogusreferentie: The Illustrated Bartsch 59-afterHollstein Dutch 536-afterNew Hollstein Dutch 560 -1 (2) Description: Arcas, son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow at a bear, not knowing that it is his mother. That has changed fifteen years earlier form. In the background on the right shows how Jupiter mother and son before Arcas can shoot, put in the sky as constellations. Among the show twice two lines of Latin text. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that depict stories from Ovid's Metamorphoses. This series is divided into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This picture belongs to the second reeks. Manufacturer : printmaker: Hendrick Goltzius (studio) to design: Hendrick Goltzius Writer: Franco Estiusuitgever: Hendrick Goltzius Place manufacture: Haarlem Dating: 1590 Physical features: car material: paper Technique: engra (printing process) Dimensions: sheet: h 178 mm × W 255 mm Subject: Callisto is hunted by her son ArcasArcas changed into a constellation: when Arcas was about to shoot the bear into How many followers his mother, Callisto, has been changed, Jupiter turns him into a constellation (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 506) Callisto changed into a constellation Jupiter changes Callisto into a constellation, when, trans formed into a bear she is about to be shot by Arcas (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 506)
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