Re-inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses : pictorial and literary transformations in various media, 1400-1800 / edited by Karl A. E. Enenkel, Jan L. de Jong.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Enenkel, K. A. E., editor.

Jong, Jan L. de, editor.

Series:

Intersections (Boston, Mass.) ; Volume 70.

Intersections ; Volume 70

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Adaptations.

Literature.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

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. Contributors are: Noam Andrews, Claudia Cieri Via, Daniel Dornhofer, Leonie Drees-Drylie, Karl A.E. Enenkel, Daniel Fulco, Barbara Hrysko, Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich, Jan L. de Jong, Andrea Lozano-Vásquez, Sabine Lütkemeyer, Morgan J. Macey, Kerstin Maria Pahl, Susanne Scholz, Robert Seidel, and Patricia Zalamea.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction : re-inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses / Karl Enenkel and Jan L. de Jong

Part 1 . Printed cycles of Ovid's Metamorphoses, book illustrations and commentaries

Chapter 2. Non-Ovidian "immigrants" in printed illustration cycles of the Metamorphoses / Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich and Sabine Lütkemeyer

Chapter 3. "Fabula ad mores relata." commenting on Ovid's Metamorphoses in early modern times : the example of the Phaethon episode / Robert Seidel

Chapter 4. Isaac De Benserade's inventiveness in Metamorphoses d'Ovide en Rondeaux (1676) on the basis of love threads woven by Arachne / Barbara Hryszko

Part 2 . Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in paintings and prints

Chapter 5. Olympic adultery : Italian escapades of Mars, Venus and Vulcan / Jan L. de Jong

Chapter 6. From original sin to pornography : pictorial translations of the Salmacis myth, ca. 1500-1800 / Karl Enenkel

Chapter 7. Playing with the gods : Nicolas Poussin's reinvention of Ovidian myths / Leonie Drees-Drylie

Chapter 8. Myths of defiance and authority : the Gigantomachy and fall of Phaeton in Ovidian imagery of the early modern German states / Daniel Fulco

Part 3 . Ovid's Metamorphoses in the applied arts

Chapter 9. From laurel to coral : the Jamnitzer Daphnes / Noam Andrews

Chapter 10. Adaptations of Ovid's Metamorphoses in late medieval France : material and moral recontextualization in the tapestry of Narcissus at the Fountain / Morgan J. Macey

Part 4 . Reinventions of Ovid's Metamorphoses in literature

Chapter 11. The hounds of desire : Elizabethan variations on Ovid's Actaeon episode / Daniel Dornhofer and Susanne Scholz

Chapter 12. Reinventing Ovidian themes in Viceregal Peru : the remaking of fertility myths in a Quechuan play / Andrea Lozano-Vásquez and Patricia Zalamea

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 / Kerstin Maria Pahl

Chapter 14. Petrification and animation : the myth of Perseus as a metaphor for the 'paragone' in early modern art / Claudia Cieri Via.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-43789-4

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004437890 DOI