Cigno hijo de Neptuno · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cigno hijo de Neptuno
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Troy; Anatolia
Description: This engraving illustrates the first battle between the Greeks and the Trojans in the Trojan War. Amidst the chaos and fighting happening in the engraving, there are two soldiers depicted as the focal point in the center of the image. The soldier which has his shield and sword in hand, standing in the chariot is the great Achilles. Achilles is depicted fighting a man named Cycnus, who is depicted just to the left of Achilles, almost in the center of the engraving. Achilles continues to throw his spear at Cycnus, however, his spear bounces off Cycnus’ armour every time. Cycnus reveals that he is the son of Neptune and cannot be harmed. Achilles ends up choking Cycnus, but before he dies, Neptune transforms him into a swan.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11852
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)
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Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Transformation; Cycnus; Gods; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; The Trojan War; Achilles

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