The commentaries that they produced were used by preachers and teachers to explain biblical. Glasgow university library special collections ovid metamorphoses. Ovids metamorphoses and the myth of the golden age. Ovid illustrated graphic arts princeton university. You can leave condolences in the guest book, buy sympathy flowers, and pay your respects. In the middle ages, the metamorphoses was interpreted by scholars and churchmen who wrote moral and allegorical interpretations of the myths. Knox ebook ovids epic poemwhose theme of change has resonated throughout the agesis one of the most important texts of western imagination, an inspiration from dantes times to the present day, when writers such as salman rushdie and italo calvino have found a living source in ovids work. Excellente figueren pdf 1557 titlepage dedication book i. Salomons figures were inspired by the elegant mannerist art of the school of fontainebleau, and were inspiration for engravers working in lyon and became widely distributed and copied. Showing erysichthon, king of thessaly, eating himself.
Media in category bernard salomon the following 102 files are in this category, out of 102 total. Salomon, bernard approximately 1506approximately 1561. Bernard salomon, 15061561 was a french painter, draftsman and engraver. Links zu ovids metamorphosen melanchthon gymnasium. A collection of tales around the theme of transformation, its first book kicks off with the mythical story of how the world as we know it came into being. The renown of this brilliant ovidian series is surely wellearned, although solis often borrows designs as do other renaissance illustrators of ovid 3 from the cycle of 178 woodcuts produced by bernard salomon for a french and dutch simplified ovid, the metamorphose figuree lyon, 1557. Solis designed 178 woodcuts in all for this version of the metamorphoses. The first two tales are about chaos and the creation of the world. He followed his translator in avoiding the depiction of certain offcolor scenes that had appealed to apuleius italian readers. That is the pain shared by jenny solomon, whose father, of cranford, n. Bernard knox has 33 books on goodreads with 1849576 ratings.
With each passing generation, ovids popular book was used in new ways and meant different things to its readers. Picture books enjoyed a great vogue in europe throughout the 16th century and. The action figures and detailed, graceful landscapes in the woodcut illustrations are attributed to bernard salomon, a master craftsman who deeply influenced book decoration and illustration in france. Allessandro masnago cameo with noahs ark walters 421447.
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