Metamorphoses: Ovid and the Arts

A unique monograph on Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on Western art, behind his most iconic images.

Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art

The Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses is among the most important works of Classical Antiquity, described in the seventeenth century as a ‘Bible for artists’. The compelling epic intertwines tales of chaos and the cosmos, encounters between gods, humans and nature, and the countless transformations to which they gave rise.

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