Batalla entre los Griegos y Troyanos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Batalla entre los Griegos y Troyanos
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Asia Minor; Troy; Anatolia
Description: This engraving illustrates the pure chaos of the first battle between the Greeks and the Trojans. This battle signifies the beginning of the Trojan war, as it is the first encounter the two armies have with one another. Protesilaus is the first Greek to step onto the shores of Troy, as well as the first to die. He is most likely one of the men in the forefront of the engraving who are depicted to have been slain.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11851
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_11851_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; The Trojan War; Death