[Act I (First Illustration) – Calisto Encounters Melibea] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Act I (First Illustration) – Calisto Encounters Melibea]
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Falcons; Falconry; Horses; Love; Passions; Gardens
Period: 1500-1550;
Geographic: Germany; Augsburg (Germany); Free Imperial City of Augsburg; Holy Roman Empire
Description: This image depicts the first encounter Calisto (figure to the left) has with Melibea (figure to the right). While practicing his falconry, Calisto follows his bird (top-left corner) into Melibea’s garden, where he first lays eyes upon her. He is struck by her beauty and instantly falls in love. In addition to these figures, there is a horse behind Melibea.
Image Creator: Hans Weiditz (Illustrator); Marx Wirsung (Printer); Sigismund Grymm (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Wood engraving
Identifier: mta:19812
Source Name: Ain hipsche Tragedia von zwaien liebhabenden mentschen ainem Ritter Calixstus unn ainer Edlen junckfrawen Melibia genannt/ deren anfang müesam was/ das mittel sieß mit dem aller bittersten ir bayder sterben beschlossen.
Parent Collection: 1520 Augsbery Weiditz, Wirsung & Grymm (Coloured); 1520 Augsbery Weiditz, Wirsung & Grymm (Coloured)
Image: mta_19812_OBJ.png
Collection: Celestina
Subject: Spanish romances; Calisto (Fictitious character); Melibea (Fictitious character); Falcons; Falconry; Horses; Love; Passions; Gardens