Pico, por ser fiel a su Esposa, es transformado por Circe en Picoverde · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Pico, por ser fiel a su Esposa, es transformado por Circe en Picoverde
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Latium; Aeaea; Italy
Description: This image depicts the enchantress Circe transforming a man named Picus into a bird. Circe had seen Picus hunting one day and instantly fell in love with him. When she approached him and confessed her love, Picus admitted that he was fully devoted to his wife Canens and had eyes for no one else. Circe, in a jealous rage, transformed Picus into a woodpecker for rejecting her. Circe is depicted holding a magical wand in her right hand as she points it to Picus, who is depicted flying away in his new transformed state as a bird.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25138
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_25138_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Picus; Canens; Circe; Transformation; Magic; Mythology