[Scylla Brushes the Hair of Galatea] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Scylla Brushes the Hair of Galatea]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Sicily; Italy
Description: This engraving depicts Scylla, surrounded by her nymph friends, combing the hair of Galatea. As Scylla combs Galatea’s hair, she discusses her love life and how she is always sought out by men. Galatea is depicted kneeling by the water with her hand to her face, as she is crying due to her own unfortunate love life. Galatea explains that she was once in love with a man named Acis, however, he was killed by a cyclops named Polyphemus.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11866
Language: spa
Source Name: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española, repartidas en quinze libros, con las Allegorias al fin dellos, y sus figuras, para prouecho de los Artifices [The Transformations of Ovid in the Spanish language, distributed in fifteen books, with the allegories at the end of them and their figures, for the benefit of the creators]
Parent Collection: Las Transformaciones de Ovidio en lengua Española. Woodcut engravings by Virgil Solis (1595)
Image: mta_11866_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Nymphs; Scylla