Naos de Eneas en Nymfas marinas · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Naos de Eneas en Nymfas marinas
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Latium; Italy
Description: This engraving depicts a battle between Aeneas’ army and Turnus’ army. Turnus conjures a plan to attack by burning Aeneas’ ships. As depicted in the engraving, the ships are engulfed in flames. The goddess Cybele was furious as 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.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11874
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_11874_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Nymphs; Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Goddesses; Cybele