Destruicion de Troya · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Destruicion de Troya
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Asia Minor; Ancient Greece; Troy; Anatolia
Description: This image depicts the fall of Troy at the end of the Trojan War. After a ten-year war, the city of Troy is destroyed by the Greeks. There are Greek ships illustrated on the water to signify the sailing towards home once the sacking of the city is complete. The main focus of the engraving is the chaos of the Greeks destroying the city before they leave. There are women being taken, one of them being Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam and the head priestess of the temple of Apollo (which is illustrated in the background of the engraving). The other woman being taken is Hecuba, the wife of King Priam and mother to Cassandra.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11858
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_11858_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Cassandra; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; The Trojan War; Hecuba