Re-inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Karl A.E. Enenkel is Professor of Medieval Latin and Neo-Latin at the University of Münster. Previously he was Professor of Neo-Latin at the University of Leiden. He has published widely on international humanism, early modern culture, paratexts, literary genres 1300–1600, Neo-Latin emblems, word and image relationships, and the history of scholarship and science.Jan L. de Jong, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer of Art History of the Early Modern Period at the University of Groningen. He has published extensively on Italian Renaissance art, including The Power and the Glorification. Papal Pretensions and the Art of Propaganda in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries (Penn State University Press, 2013).

• ContentsList of IllustrationsNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 Introduction: Re-Inventing Ovid’s MetamorphosesKarl Enenkel and Jan L. de JongPART 1: Printed Cycles of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book Illustrations, and Commentaries2 Non-Ovidian “Immigrants” in Printed Illustration Cycles of the MetamorphosesGerlinde Huber-Rebenich & Sabine Lütkemeyer3 “Fabula ad mores relata.” Commenting on Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Early Modern Times: the Example of the Phaethon EpisodeRobert Seidel4 Isaac De Benserade’s Inventiveness in Metamorphoses d’Ovide en rondeaux (1676) on the Basis of Love Threads Woven by ArachneBarbara HryszkoPART 2: Reinventions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Painting and Prints5 Olympic Adultery. Italian Escapades of Mars, Venus and VulcanJan L. de Jong6 From Original Sin to Pornography: Pictorial Translations of the Salmacis Myth, ca. 1500–1800Karl Enenkel7 Playing with the Gods: Nicolas Poussin’s Reinvention of Ovidian MythsLeonie Drees-Drylie8 Myths of Defiance and Authority: the Gigantomachy and Fall of Phaeton in Ovidian Imagery of the Early Modern German StatesDaniel FulcoPART 3: Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the Applied Arts9 From Laurel to Coral: the Jamnitzer DaphnesNoam Andrews10 Adaptations of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Late Medieval France: Material and Moral Recontextualization in the Tapestry of Narcissus at the FountainMorgan J. MaceyPART 4: Reinventions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Literature11 The Hounds of Desire: Elizabethan Variations on Ovid’s Actaeon EpisodeDaniel Dornhofer and Susanne Scholz12 Reinventing Ovidian Themes in Viceregal Peru: the Remaking of Fertility Myths in a Quechuan PlayAndrea Lozano-Vásquez and Patricia ZalameaPART 5: Reinventions of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Theory of Literature and Art Theory13 Morphings at Meta-Levels: Ovid, John Dryden, and the Art of Likeness in TranslationKerstin Maria Pahl14 Petrification and Animation: the Myth of Perseus as a Metaphor for the ‘Paragone’ in Early Modern ArtClaudia Cieri ViaIndex Nominum