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Title
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Dryope in einen Baum
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Description
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This image illustrates the tragic fate of Dryope being transformed into a tree. The background of the illustration depicts Dryope and her half-sister, Iole, picking flowers from a tree. Dryope is the figure that is holding a child in her arms. Dryope was the first to pick a flower, when suddenly, blood began pouring out of the tree. The tree was in fact a nymph in the form of a tree, and to punish Dryope for picking flowers off her body, she transforms Dryope into a tree as well. Dryope is depicted in the forefront of the illustration with her body in mid-transformation, with her arms and legs already changed. Iole is illustrated clinging onto her sister’s legs to try preventing the transformation. Her husband, Andraemon, and her father, Eurytus, are illustrated in the engraving as well. Her husband is holding up their child to kiss her lips one last time.
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Image Creator
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Virgil Solis (Engraver)
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Identifier
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mta:22882
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Source Name
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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]
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Image
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Subject
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Dryope
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Iole
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Andraemon
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Eurytus
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Transformation
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Roman Mythology
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Greek Mythology
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