Re-Inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses : Pictorial and Literary Transformations in Various Media, 1400-1800.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (503 pages)
- Intersections Series ; v.70 .
- Intersections Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Notes on the Editors -- Notes on the Contributors -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Re-Inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses -- Part 1 Printed Cycles of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book Illustrations and Commentaries -- Chapter 2 Non-Ovidian "Immigrants" in Printed Illustration Cycles of the Metamorphoses -- Chapter 3 "Fabula ad mores relata." Commenting on Ovid's Metamorphoses in Early Modern Times: the Example of the Phaethon Episode -- Chapter 4 Isaac De Benserade's Inventiveness in Metamorphoses d'Ovide en rondeaux (1676) on the Basis of Love Threads Woven by Arachne -- PART 2 Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Paintings and Prints -- Chapter 5 Olympic Adultery: Italian Escapades of Mars, Venus and Vulcan -- Chapter 6 From Original Sin to Pornography: Pictorial Translations of the Salmacis Myth, ca. 1500-1800 -- Chapter 7 Playing with the Gods: Nicolas Poussin's Reinvention of Ovidian Myths -- Chapter 8 Myths of Defiance and Authority: the Gigantomachy and Fall of Phaeton in Ovidian Imagery of the Early Modern German States -- Part 3 Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Applied Arts -- Chapter 9 From Laurel to Coral: the Jamnitzer Daphnes -- Chapter 10 Adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at The Fountain -- Part 4 Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Literature -- Chapter 11 The Hounds of Desire: Elizabethan Variations on Ovid's Actaeon Episode -- Chapter 12 Reinventing Ovidian Themes in Viceregal Peru: the Remaking of Fertility Myths in a Quechuan Play -- Part 5 Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Theory of Literature and Art Theory -- Chapter 13 Morphings at Meta-Levels: Ovid, John Dryden, and the Art of Likeness in Translation. Chapter 14 Petrification and Animation: the Myth of Perseus as a Metaphor for the 'Paragone' in Early Modern Art -- Index Nominum.
This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.