Diana and Callisto
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Diana and Callisto is a painting completed between 1556 and 1559 by the Italian late Renaissance artist Titian. It portrays the moment in which the goddess Diana discovers that her maid Callisto has b
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The Vienna version, which has some alterations to some of the figures, although the underdrawing is almost identical to the prime version in London.
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Venus and Adonis
Metamorphoses
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The Metamorphoses is a Latin narrative poem from 8 CE by the Roman poet Ovid. It is considered his magnum opus. The poem chronicles the history of the world from its creation to the deification of Jul
Diana and Callisto
…Museum, in Vienna. Diana and Callisto is part of a series of seven famous canvasses, the "poesies", depicting mythological scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses painted for Philip II of Spain after Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor had declined Titian's offer to paint them for him. The work remained in the…
Page from the edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses published by Lucantonio Giunti in Venice, 1497
Title page of 1556 edition published by Joannes Gryphius (decorative border added subsequently). Hayden White Rare Book Collection, University of California, Santa Cruz.
A woodcut from Virgil Solis, illustrating the apotheosis of Julius Caesar, the final event of the poem (XV.745–850)
A depiction of the story of Pygmalion, Pygmalion adoring his statue by Jean Raoux (1717)