Re-Inventing Ovid's Metamorphoses - Pictorial and Literary Transformations in Various Media, 1400-1800

This volume explores early modern recreations of Ovid's Metamorphoses, focusing on the creative ingenium of artists and writers who freely handled the original text so as to adapt it to different artistic media and genres.

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).

Product details

• Authors: Jan L. de Jong, Karl A. E. Enenkel
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.10.2020
• EAN: 9789004424890
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42489-0
• No. of pages: 504
• Dimensions: 164 mm x 241 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 1070 g
• Series: Intersections
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history