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Title: Sileno amo de Baccho
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Phrygia; Ancient Greece
Description: Silenus, one of Bacchus’ companions had one day gone missing. He had found himself captured by Phrygian men while he was stumbling around in a drunken stupor. This engraving illustrates the Phrygian men leading Silenus to King Midas. King Midas is depicted on the left-hand side of the engraving, holding his arms out towards Silenus, as they were once old friends who had learned Bacchic rites together. Bacchus is illustrated at the top of the engraving, sitting on a cloud looking down on the scene as he searches for Silenus.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11686
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_11686_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Gods; Bacchus