Cornix turns into a crow, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Imagination of the second story that the crow Cornix tells to the white raven Corvus. Cornix (sometimes also called Coronis) was the daughter of Coroneus in Phocis. When she walked along the beach as a girl, the Zeegeod Neptune tried to move on to her. Minerva came to the rescue Cornix and turned her into a crow. Two times two verses in Latin 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 serie
Cornix turns into a crow, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Imagination of the second story that the crow Cornix tells to the white raven Corvus. Cornix (sometimes also called Coronis) was the daughter of Coroneus in Phocis. When she walked along the beach as a girl, the Zeegeod Neptune tried to move on to her. Minerva came to the rescue Cornix and turned her into a crow. Two times two verses in Latin 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 Coronis changed into a crow: to escape the love of Neptune, Coronis, daughter of Coroneus, is changed into a crow by Minerva (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 569)
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