Pygmalion (mythology)
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In classical mythology, Pygmalion was a legendary Phoenician figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a s
Pygmalion Adoring His Statue by Jean Raoux, 1717
Étienne Maurice Falconet: Pygmalion et Galatée (1763)
Pygmalion and Galatea by Girodet
The Origin of Sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Regnault, 1786, Musée National du Château et des Trianons
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
Pygmalion (mythology)
…Pugmalíōn, gen.: Πυγμαλίωνος; Phoenician: 𐤐𐤌𐤉𐤉𐤕𐤍 Pūmayyātān) was a legendary Phoenician figure of Cyprus. He is most familiar from Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, in which Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved. In book 10 of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor…
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)