Polidoro hallado muerto por Hecuba su madre · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Polidoro hallado muerto por Hecuba su madre
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ancient Greece
Description: This engraving illustrates Hecuba, the wife of King Priam of Troy, mourning over the loss of her children who had been killed as a result of the Trojan War. She is illustrated standing above her daughter Polyxena’s body, with other Trojan women by her side. While lamenting about Polyxena’s death, a body washed up on the shore. The body is her son, Polydorus, who had been murdered by King Polymestor.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11862
Language: spa
Source Name: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
Parent Collection: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)
Image: mta_11862_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Polyxena; Polydorus; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; The Trojan War; Hecuba