Venus transforma en Toros a los Cerastes que profanaban a Chipre · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Venus transforma en Toros a los Cerastes que profanaban a Chipre
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Amathus; Cyprus; Ancient Greece
Description: This image depicts the transformation of the Cerastae of Cyprus. The Cerastae of Cyprus had been failing to worship the god Jupiter properly by sacrificing people who visited their city. The temple to Jupiter is depicted in the background of the image where people are being sacrificed. Venus was angered by these forms of sacrifices and punished the Cerastae by transforming them into bulls. Venus is depicted floating on a bed of clouds at the top of the image while the transformed bulls are below her.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:25049
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_25049_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Cerastae; Venus; Jupiter; Worship; Mythology; Gods; Goddesses; Transformation