Apollo entrusts Asclepius to Chiron, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Apollo gives his child Asclepius, which he cut from Coronis' belly after he shot her to death, to the Centaur Chiron. In the background you can see how Chiron's daughter turns into a horse, after predicting what the future of Asclepius and her father will be. Two times two lines of Latin text under the performance. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that represent stories from Ovid's metamorphoses. This series falls into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints
Apollo entrusts Asclepius to Chiron, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Apollo gives his child Asclepius, which he cut from Coronis' belly after he shot her to death, to the Centaur Chiron. In the background you can see how Chiron's daughter turns into a horse, after predicting what the future of Asclepius and her father will be. Two times two lines of Latin text under the performance. This print is part of a series of 52 prints that represent stories from Ovid's metamorphoses. This series falls into three numbered series: two of 20 prints and one of 12 prints. This print belongs to the second series. Haarlem paper engraving Apollo hands Aesculapius over to Chiron. Ocyroe changed into a mare: when she is foretelling the fates of her father Chiron and the young Aesculapius, Ocyroe is changed into a mare (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 657)
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