TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barolsky,Paul
TI  - Ovid and the metamorphoses of modern art from Botticelli to Picasso
SN  - 9780300196696
AV  - N8224.M46 B37 2014
U1  - 704.9/4987301 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - New Haven
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Ovid,
KW  - Ovidius Naso, Publius,
KW  - Metamorphoses (Ovid)
KW  - fast
KW  - Metamorphosis in art
KW  - Mythology, Classical, in art
KW  - Art, European
KW  - Themes, motives
KW  - ART / Criticism & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - ART / Subjects & Themes / General
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - gnd
KW  - Kunst
KW  - Illustrations
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The adventure of reading Ovid -- The pleasures of Ovidian art -- Love, lust, and artifice -- Variations on the theme of Pygmalion -- From stoicism to seduction -- Weaving together erotic fictions -- Elegy and play
N2  - "Written in the spirit of Ovid, this lively and erudite book traces the art derived from Ovid's Metamorphoses from the Renaissance up to the present day. The Metamorphoses has been more widely illustrated than any other book except the Bible; for centuries, great artists have drawn, painted, and sculpted its stories, the artists often responding not only to Ovid's work but to one another's in their depictions. Paul Barolsky, a specialist in Italian Renaissance art and literature, explores Ovid's unparalleled influence on the visual arts, discussing works by many of the most famous artists of the past six centuries. Broadly interdisciplinary, the new understanding of the themes of the Metamorphoses revealed here will appeal to those in the fields of Renaissance art, humanism, literature, history, and classics, among others. At once witty, entertaining, and profound, Ovid and the Metamorphoses of Modern Art from Botticelli to Picasso is a meditation on what words can achieve that images cannot, and conversely what images can show that words cannot tell."--
ER  -