Los navios de Eneas incendiados por Turno son transformados por Cibeles en ninfas marinas · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Los navios de Eneas incendiados por Turno son transformados por Cibeles en ninfas marinas
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Italy; Latium
Description: A battle between Aeneas’ army and Turnus’ army resulted in Turnus conjuring a plan to attack by burning Aeneas’ ships. The goddess Cybele, however, was furious because Aeneas’ ships were made from her favourite trees. Cybele interferes by riding past the battle in her lion-drawn chariot, as illustrated at the top of the engraving. She makes it rain enough to put the fires out, and to save the ships even further, she transforms them into nymphs. There are nymphs depicted in the water beside the ships to illustrate the transformation. The soldiers from the battle are depicted in the background of the image.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25143
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_25143_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Turnus; Cybele; Transformation; Nymphs; Mythology; Aeneas