Re-inventing Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Pictorial and Literary Transformations in Various Media, 1400–1800(70 Intersections)

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 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 Contents:
Contents 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

About the Author :
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).