Anaxarete en Iphis, Anonymous, After Jean Lepautre, 1675 - 1711 print A funeral procession passes by a palace. The deceased shepherd Iphis is on the corpse. He committed suicide because the woman he loved, Anaxarete, devoted him. Anaxarete looks through the window to the funeral procession and is still unmoved. That is why Venus turns her into stone. Under the show a four -line verse in Dutch and a reference to the text in the metamorphoses of Ovidius. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Anaxarete changed into a stone: while looking from her window at Iphis' funeral, Anaxarete is changed into
Anaxarete en Iphis, Anonymous, After Jean Lepautre, 1675 - 1711 print A funeral procession passes by a palace. The deceased shepherd Iphis is on the corpse. He committed suicide because the woman he loved, Anaxarete, devoted him. Anaxarete looks through the window to the funeral procession and is still unmoved. That is why Venus turns her into stone. Under the show a four -line verse in Dutch and a reference to the text in the metamorphoses of Ovidius. Amsterdam paper etching / engraving Anaxarete changed into a stone: while looking from her window at Iphis' funeral, Anaxarete is changed into a stone (Ovid, Metamorphoses XIV 753)
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