[Hersilia is Approached by the Goddess Isis on Behalf of Juno] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Hersilia is Approached by the Goddess Isis on Behalf of Juno]
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Italy; Rome
Description: Hersilia, the wife of Romulus, is depicted on the left-hand side of the engraving with a crown on her head, running towards the goddess illustrated in the sky. Hersilia, as described by Ovid, had been upset as Romulus had been deified and had to leave her behind. The goddess Juno had pitied Hersilia, and sent her messenger, Iris, to send word to Hersilia that she may join her husband and become a goddess herself. Iris is illustrated on the cloud with her hand reaching down towards Hersilia.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11895
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_11895_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Deification; Hersilia; Roman Mythology; Romulus