Ovid Illustrated: The Renaissance Reception of Ovid in Image and Text

The present page links to the 58 plates which were published in M. des Marolles' Temple des Muses (Paris, 1655, plates by Cornelis Bloemart on designs mainly by Diepenbeeck, reeng. Peter de Bailliu, 1676 [= II]) along with B. Picart's reengravings (= III) for a much-revised text, published as De Tempel der Zang-Godinen, Amsterdam, 1733, (also issued with English and French title-pages); the 1733 reengravings include two new plates, Lycaon and Leucothoe, which are posted in due course below. As attested by the title of a 1769 reissue of Marolles' now-recaptioned original plates (= IV)*, Marolles' volume may be viewed as a quasi-Ovidian cycle of myth-illustrations in its own right; certainly the prints for the 1733 altered reissue are close cousins of Picart's engravings for the lavish Banier Ovid published 1732, and subjects from Marolles migrate into major Ovidian cycles as early as 1676 (see Notes-Links searching "Temple des Muses").

  Title-page II III   Chaos II III   Giants II III   [Lycaon]   Flood II III   Pyrrha II III   Pandora II III IV   Prometheus II III   Enceladus II III   Phaethon II III   Cygnus II III   Io/Argus II III IV   Syrinx II III   Semele II III   Daphne II III   [Leucothoe]   Clytie II III   Endymion II III   Tithonus II III IV   Memnon II III   Pygmalion II III   Actaeon II III   Oeneus II III   Meleager II III   Achelous II III   Hydra II III   Hercules' Death II III   Castor and Pollux II III   Dioscuri as Guardians II III   Proteus II III   Glaucus II III   Symplegades II III   Arethusa II III   Salmacis II III   Sirens II III   Alcyone II III   Icarus II III   Leander II III   Narcissus II III   Echo II III   Arion II III   Medusa II III   Andromeda II III   Atlas II III   Bellerophon II III   Amphion II III IV   Niobe II III IV   Harpies II III   Golden Fleece II III   Telephus II III   Penelope's Web II III IV   Cassandra II III   Palladium II III   Iphis II III IV   Orpheus II III   Hell II III   Tantalus II III   Ixion II III   Sisyphus II III   Danaides II III   Sleep II III
       * Collection originale des tableaux les plus intéressans des Métamorphoses d'Ovide publiés en 1655 (Paris, 1769).



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