Vertumno, transformado en vieja logra el amor de Pomona · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Vertumno, transformado en vieja logra el amor de Pomona
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Latium; Italy
Description: This engraving depicts the nymph Pomona engaging in a conversation with what seems to be an elderly woman. The elderly woman is in fact the god of seasons Vertumnus in disguise. Pomona is a nymph who has a passion for gardening. Ovid explains that she allows no men to enter her garden, which is why Vertumnus disguises himself as an old woman. Taken by her beauty, Vertumnus does whatever it takes to spend time with Pomona, even putting on disguises. There are small, winged cherubs in the top left corner of the image watching over the scene.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25145
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1819)
Image: mta_25145_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Pomona; Vertumnus; Gardening; Transformation; Gods