Adonis mudado en flor · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Adonis mudado en flor
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Cyprus
Description: This engraving illustrates the death of Venus’ lover, Adonis. Adonis had ignored Venus’ advice on hunting smaller, less threatening animals, and had chased after a boar while on a hunt. One of Adonis’ hounds is illustrated chasing the boar away in the background of the engraving. Unfortunately, the boar attacked Adonis by piercing his groin with one of his sharp tusks. Adonis is illustrated laying on the ground, in pain by his fatal wounds. Venus heard his groans while she was flying in her chariot drawn by swans. She found Adonis’ lifeless body and mourned over him. She then turns his blood into an anemone flower.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11534
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_11534_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Transformation; Adonis; Goddesses