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Book SynopsisThis 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 Hryszko, 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.
Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on the Editors Notes on the Contributors 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 2 Non-Ovidian “Immigrants” in Printed Illustration Cycles of the Metamorphoses Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich & Sabine Lütkemeyer 3 “Fabula ad mores relata.” Commenting on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Early Modern Times: the Example of the Phaethon Episode Robert Seidel 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 Painting and Prints 5 Olympic Adultery. Italian Escapades of Mars, Venus and Vulcan Jan L. de Jong 6 From Original Sin to Pornography: Pictorial Translations of the Salmacis Myth, ca. 1500–1800 Karl Enenkel 7 Playing with the Gods: Nicolas Poussin’s Reinvention of Ovidian Myths Leonie Drees-Drylie 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 9 From Laurel to Coral: the Jamnitzer Daphnes Noam Andrews 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 11 The Hounds of Desire: Elizabethan Variations on Ovid’s Actaeon Episode Daniel Dornhofer and Susanne Scholz 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 13 Morphings at Meta-Levels: Ovid, John Dryden, and the Art of Likeness in Translation Kerstin Maria Pahl 14 Petrification and Animation: the Myth of Perseus as a Metaphor for the ‘Paragone’ in Early Modern Art Claudia Cieri Via Index Nominum
