Pigmaleon se enamora de la estatua que habia hecho, y Venus la anima · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pigmaleon se enamora de la estatua que habia hecho, y Venus la anima
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Cyprus; Ancient Greece
Description: This engraving depicts the story of the sculptor Pygmalion. Instead of being with a real woman, Pygmalion sculpted a woman out of ivory who was almost perfectly lifelike. He is depicted caressing his sculpture on the right-hand side of the engraving. During a festival dedicated to Venus, Pygmalion prayed at her altar asking for a woman like his ivory sculpture. He is depicted kneeling and praying to Venus in the background of the engraving at her altar. Venus fulfilled his request, and she transformed his statue into a real woman.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25050
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25050_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Pygmalion; Venus; Transformation; Goddesses; Mythology