Deukalion and Pyrrha, Johannes or Lucas van Doetechum, After Gerard van Groeningen, 1601 - 1652 print Deucalion and Pyrrha are in the water of a large flood that destroyed the earth. In the middle they kneel down for an oracle in a temple. They are advised by the oracle to throw stones behind them. They do that in the foreground. The stones change to children. Under the show the text from the Metamorphoses of Ovidius, Book 1, Versrules 411-414. print maker: Antwerpafter design by: Antwerppublisher: Amsterdam paper etching Deucalion's flood; Jupiter sends a great flood to destroy mankind; Deuca
Deukalion and Pyrrha, Johannes or Lucas van Doetechum, After Gerard van Groeningen, 1601 - 1652 print Deucalion and Pyrrha are in the water of a large flood that destroyed the earth. In the middle they kneel down for an oracle in a temple. They are advised by the oracle to throw stones behind them. They do that in the foreground. The stones change to children. Under the show the text from the Metamorphoses of Ovidius, Book 1, Versrules 411-414. print maker: Antwerpafter design by: Antwerppublisher: Amsterdam paper etching Deucalion's flood; Jupiter sends a great flood to destroy mankind; Deucalion and Pyrrha afloat. Deucalion and Pyrrha pray, usually at the shrine of Gaea-Themis. stones turning into men: stones thrown by Deucalion and Pyrrha, as directed by the oracle of Themis, turn into men (Ovid, Metamorphoses X 400)
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