Der Giganten oder Risen tünheit · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Der Giganten oder Risen tünheit
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome
Description: This engraving illustrates giants participating in a war against the god Jupiter, who is depicted in the top left corner of the image surrounded by clouds and other gods on top of Olympus. The giants in the image are carrying rocks and stacking them on top of each other in order to reach Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus proves to be too high to reach, so the giants pile Mount Pelion on top of Mount Ossa in further attempt to reach Jupiter. Before the giants can reach Jupiter, he hurls his thunder bolts on to the mountains that the giants were climbing, eventually knocking them over, which leads to their destruction.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:20886
Language: ger
Source Name: P. Ouidij Nasonis, deß Sinnreichen und hochverstendigen Poeten, Metamorphoses oder Verwandlung, mit schönen figuren gezieret, auch kurzen Argumenten und außlegungen erkläret, und in Teutsche Reymen gebracht, durch Johann Spreng von Augspurg [Publius Ovidius Naso, the Ingenious and Highly Understandable Poet, Metamorphoses or Transformations, Adorned with Beautiful Images, and also descriptions of Short Arguments and Explanations, Brought into German Rhymes by Johann Spreng of Augsburg]
Parent Collection: 1564 Frankfurt Spreng
Image: mta_20886_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Mythology; Gods; Jupiter; Roman Mythology; Giants

Media: mta_20886_OBJ.jpg