Metamorphoses. The most beautiful stories illustrated by Baroque painting.
Diane de Selliers| N° d'inventaire | 23079 |
| Format | 20 x 27 |
| Détails | 367 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782364371071 |
Jupiter, Europa, Narcissus and Echo, Apollo, Orpheus and Eurydice... The gods and heroes of our classical culture guide us through a world where love and suffering, beauty and cruelty, power and revenge coexist. These marvelous stories resonate intensely in our ears: for 2,000 years, The Metamorphoses have spoken to us about love, about wounded and powerful women, about ecology, about gender and identity, and above all about life, which is perpetually transforming. The author of a cosmogony It was at the turn of our era, in Rome, that Ovid (43 BC - 18 AD) composed his masterpiece, The Metamorphoses. The 91 stories that we have selected from among the most beautiful and powerful draw the story of the universe, from chaos to harmony, passing through poetic metamorphoses. The Translation Published in 1927 and revised in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Néraudau, an Ovid specialist, Georges Lafaye's translation captures the poetry and beauty that emanate from the Metamorphoses while remaining faithful to Ovid's spirit. Iconography Since Antiquity, Ovid's poem has inspired artists. But it was the Baroque painters who seized upon the Metamorphoses with the greatest vivacity. In the 10th century, pagan gods no longer worried the Church; they belonged to the world of myth. From then on, artists drew inspiration from Ovid's exhilarating text to create works of extraordinary narrative power. 180 paintings by 100 artists from Baroque Europe - including Carracci, Caravaggio, Luca Giordano, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Jusepe Ribera - thus enter into dialogue with Ovid's text.
Jupiter, Europa, Narcissus and Echo, Apollo, Orpheus and Eurydice... The gods and heroes of our classical culture guide us through a world where love and suffering, beauty and cruelty, power and revenge coexist. These marvelous stories resonate intensely in our ears: for 2,000 years, The Metamorphoses have spoken to us about love, about wounded and powerful women, about ecology, about gender and identity, and above all about life, which is perpetually transforming. The author of a cosmogony It was at the turn of our era, in Rome, that Ovid (43 BC - 18 AD) composed his masterpiece, The Metamorphoses. The 91 stories that we have selected from among the most beautiful and powerful draw the story of the universe, from chaos to harmony, passing through poetic metamorphoses. The Translation Published in 1927 and revised in 1992 by Jean-Pierre Néraudau, an Ovid specialist, Georges Lafaye's translation captures the poetry and beauty that emanate from the Metamorphoses while remaining faithful to Ovid's spirit. Iconography Since Antiquity, Ovid's poem has inspired artists. But it was the Baroque painters who seized upon the Metamorphoses with the greatest vivacity. In the 10th century, pagan gods no longer worried the Church; they belonged to the world of myth. From then on, artists drew inspiration from Ovid's exhilarating text to create works of extraordinary narrative power. 180 paintings by 100 artists from Baroque Europe - including Carracci, Caravaggio, Luca Giordano, Nicolas Poussin, Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Jusepe Ribera - thus enter into dialogue with Ovid's text.