Re-inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses : pictorial and literary transformations in various media, 1400-1800

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]
Subject:: Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Criticism and interpretation
Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Metamophoses
Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Adaptations
Ovid, - 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. - Influence
Contributor:: Enenkel, K. A. E., editor
Jong, Jan L. de, editor
ISBN:: 9789004424890 and 900442489X
Series:: Intersections (Boston, Mass.)
Description:: xxviii, 475 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:: Introduction : re-inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses / Karl Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong -- Printed cycles of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book illustrations and commentaries -- Non-Ovidian "immigrants" in printed illustration cycles of the Metamorphoses / Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Sabine Lütkemeyer -- "Fabula ad mores relata." commenting on Ovid's Metamorphoses in early modern times : the example of the Phaethon episode / Robert Seidel -- Isaac De Benserade's inventiveness in Metamorphoses d'Ovide en Rondeaux (1676) on the basis of love threads woven by Arachne / Barbara Hryszko -- Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in paintings and prints -- Olympic adultery : Italian escapades of Mars, Venus and Vulcan / Jan L. de Jong -- From original sin to pornography : pictorial translations of the Salmacis myth, ca. 1500-1800 / Karl Enenkel -- Playing with the gods : Nicolas Poussin's reinvention of Ovidian myths / Leonie Drees-Drylie -- Myths of defiance and authority : the Gigantomachy and fall of Phaeton in Ovidian imagery of the early modern German states / Daniel Fulco -- Ovid's Metamorphoses in the applied arts -- From laurel to coral : the Jamnitzer Daphnes / Noam Andrews -- Adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in late medieval France : material and moral recontextualization in the tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain / Morgan J. Macey -- Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in literature -- The hounds of desire : Elizabethan variations on Ovid's Actaeon episode / Daniel Dornhofer and Susanne Scholz -- Reinventing Ovidian themes in Viceregal Peru : the remaking of fertility myths in a Quechuan play / Andrea Lozano-Vásquez and Patricia Zalamea -- Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in theory of literature and art theory -- Morphings at meta-levels : Ovid, John Dryden, and the art of likeness in translation / Kerstin Maria Pahl -- Petrification and animation : the myth of Perseus as a metaphor for the 'paragone' in early modern art / Claudia Cieri Via
Summary:: "This volume explores early modern recreations of myths from Ovid's immensely popular Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers and on the peculiarities of the various media that were applied. The contributors try to tease out what (pictorial) devices, perspectives, and interpretative markers were used that do not occur in the original text of the Metamorphoses, what aspects were brought to the fore or emphasized, and how these are to be explained. Expounding the whatabouts of these differences, the contributors discuss the underlying literary and artistic problems, challenges, principles and techniques, the requirements of the various literary and artistic media, and the role of the cultural, ideological, religious, and gendered contexts in which these recreations were produced"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:: BGC Monograph Stacks
Call Number:: PA6519.M9 R43 2021
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