Por haber insultado un pastor a unas ninfas que danzaban es convertido en olivo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Por haber insultado un pastor a unas ninfas que danzaban es convertido en olivo
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Apulia; Italy
Description: This engraving depicts a group of nymphs gathered in a circle dancing and skipping. The nymphs had been approached by a shepherd from Apulia and began to mock them by imitating their dancing and cursing at them. As punishment, the nymphs transformed him into an olive tree. The shepherd in his transformed state is illustrated in the background of the engraving on the left side of the image. The nymphs continued to dance and enjoy themselves after the transformation of the shepherd.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25141
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_25141_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Nymphs; Transformation; Olive Tree; Mythology