Aeson grauw und alt/wirdt jünger · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Aeson grauw und alt/wirdt jünger
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Colchis; Ancient Greece; Modern day Georgia
Description: This engraving depicts Medea leaning over a large bronze cauldron filled with a potion full of herbs and items that will rejuvenate her father-in-law, Aeson. Aeson is depicted laying naked on the ground next to the altar dedicated to Hecate. Medea knows the potion is ready when the olive branch she stirs it with begins to sprout leaves. Medea must slit the throat of Aeson and drain his blood so that she can replace it with her potion. Once this is done, Aeson is rejuvenated by forty years.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:22611
Language: ger
Source Name: P. Ouidij Nasonis, deß Sinnreichen und hochverstendigen Poeten, Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung, mit schönen figuren gezieret, auch kurzen Argumenten und außlegungen erkläret, und in Teutsche Reymen gebracht, durch Johann Spreng von Augspurg [Publius Ovidius Naso, the Ingenious and Highly Understandable Poet, Metamorphoses or Transformations, Adorned with Beautiful Images, and also descriptions of Short Arguments and Explanations, Brought into German Rhymes by Johann Spreng of Augsburg]
Parent Collection: 1564 Frankfurt Spreng
Image: mta_22611_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Medea; Jason; Aeson; Rejuvenation; Herbs; Magic; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology