Apulo pastor en oliva silvestre · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Apulo pastor en oliva silvestre
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Italy; Apulia
Description: This engraving depicts a group of nymphs gathered in a circle, dancing and skipping. The nymphs had been approached by a shepherd from Apulia and he began to mock them by imitating their dancing and cursing at them. As punishment, the nymphs transformed him into an olive tree. The shepherd in his transformed state is illustrated in the background of the engraving on the right-hand side of the image. The nymphs continued to dance and enjoy themselves after the transformation of the shepherd.
Image Creator: Virgil Solis (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:11873
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_11873_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Roman Mythology; Greek Mythology; Nymphs; Transformation; Shepherds