Ende deß Gündfluß · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ende deß Gündfluß
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Mount Parnassus; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts the sea god Triton in the foreground riding his chariot and holding his trident in his left hand with a conch shell in his right. Triton was sent by Jupiter to calm the waters of the great flood that Jupiter had created in order to destroy humankind. The two people illustrated on the rock directly behind Neptune is Deucalion and Pyrrha, a husband and wife who had been spared by Jupiter for their religious devotion to the gods.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:20951
Language: ger
Source Name: P. Ouidij Nasonis, deß Sinnreichen und hochverstendigen Poeten, Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung, mit schönen figuren gezieret, auch kurzen Argumenten und außlegungen erkläret, und in Teutsche Reymen gebracht, durch Johann Spreng von Augspurg [Publius Ovidius Naso, the Ingenious and Highly Understandable Poet, Metamorphoses or Transformations, Adorned with Beautiful Images, and also descriptions of Short Arguments and Explanations, Brought into German Rhymes by Johann Spreng of Augsburg]
Parent Collection: 1564 Frankfurt Spreng
Image: mta_20951_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Jupiter; Neptune; Roman Mythology; Deucalion; Pyrrha; Devotion; Floods; Gods