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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
From Ovid's Cecrops to Rubens's City of God in "The Finding of Erichthonius"
Contributor:
Georgievska-Shine, Aneta
Published:
College Art Association, 2004
Published in:
The Art Bulletin, 86 (2004) 1, Seite 58-74
Language:
English
ISSN:
0004-3079
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
Peter Paul Rubens based his early mythological painting "The Finding of Erichthonius" on book 2 of Ovid's "Metamorphoses", among other classical sources. An examination of the painting's allegorical content reveals how Rubens's approach to the meaning of this myth is comparable to the manner in which Ovid wove different mythological episodes together into a metanarrative of transformations at the core of his poem. Specifically, by means of complex visual allusions, Rubens accomplished a similar layering of stories, which serves to relate this Attic foundation myth to a larger theme of Christianity's succession to paganism.