Arcas focuses his arrow on Callisto, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, focuses his arrow on a bear, not knowing that that is his mother. It changed his form fifteen years earlier. In the background on the right you can see how Jupiter mother and son, before Arcas can shoot, places in the sky, as constellations. 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 print

Arcas focuses his arrow on Callisto, Hendrick Goltzius (workshop of), After Hendrick Goltzius, 1590 print Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, focuses his arrow on a bear, not knowing that that is his mother. It changed his form fifteen years earlier. In the background on the right you can see how Jupiter mother and son, before Arcas can shoot, places in the sky, as constellations. 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 Callisto is hunted by her son Arcas. Arcas changed into a constellation: when Arcas is about to shoot the bear into which 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, transformed into a bear she is about to be shot by Arcas (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 506)

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