Jupiter transformado en Aguila arrebata a Gammedes · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Jupiter transformado en Aguila arrebata a Gammedes
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Phrygia; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts Jupiter disguising himself as an eagle to abduct a boy that he was in love with. The engraving illustrates Jupiter in the form of a giant eagle, carrying away the Phrygian boy named Ganymede. Ganymede has his left arm wrapped around the eagle’s neck and the other arm is holding a piece of fabric that is blowing in the wind. Jupiter took him away from Phrygia and brought him up to the heavens to handle his mixing cups.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25046
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_25046_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Ganymede; Jupiter; Abduction; Mythology; Gods; Goddesses