Cenis convertida en varon · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cenis convertida en varon
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Thessaly; Ancient Greece
Description: The woman depicted in this engraving is Caenis, a young virgin from Thessaly who had been the object of many suitors. She was walking along the beach when the sea-god Neptune noticed her beauty and took Caenis by force. Neptune’s trident is illustrated by his feet, and his sea-horse drawn chariot is visible on the left-hand side of the engraving in the water. After raping Caenis, Neptune grants her one wish. She asked to never be harmed or suffer any pain like that again, so Neptune transformed her into a man named Caeneus who would be protected from all wounds.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11854
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_11854_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Gods; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Transformation; Rape