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Barolsky follows various themes through text and art to conclude that Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the major inspirations for Renaissance art. Only biblical stories get more extensive treatment in paint. Ovid treats recursive art about art, attributes that appear early on, show up in later stories in many layered forms. Using about 250 mythological stories, Ovid weaves a very finely detailed tapestry, and weaving textiles and texts is one of these themes. But Titian, Rubens, et al are up to th
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A companion piece I've been perusing while working through an extended discussion of Ovid's Metamorphoses. This is a very beautiful book, providing discussions and generous illustrations that greatly enrich the experience of reading Ovid. While I acquired it as reference material and the discussions linking the artworks to the Ovidian stories are insightful and remarkably concise, the book easily stands on its own on its merit as simply an art book. It has greatly enriched the experience of read
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