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Title: Acis mudado en rio
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Italy; Sicily
Description: After getting murdered by the cyclops Polyphemus, Acis had been transformed into a river-god by his lover, a Nereid named Galatea. Polyphemus had killed Acis in a jealous rage and crushed him with a boulder. The blood that poured out from Acis’ body had been turned into a river, and Acis became the god of that river. Galatea is illustrated on the bank of the river looking at Acis in his newly transformed state as a river-god. Acis is depicted with his arms reaching toward Galatea in an appreciative and longing manner.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11868
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_11868_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Cyclops; Nereids; Transformation