Medea remoza con diferentes yerbas al padre de Jason · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Medea remoza con diferentes yerbas al padre de Jason
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Thessaly; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts Medea performing magic with various herbs in order to rejuvenate her father-in-law Aeson. Aeson’s body is lying on the ground as Medea lights candles and holds an olive branch. Medea must slit the throat of Aeson and drain his blood so that she can replace it with her potion. Once this is done, Aeson is rejuvenated by forty years.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24992
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 (1809)
Image: mta_24992_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Medea; Aeson; Magic; Herbs; Mythology