Arcas Aims his Arrow at Callisto, after Ovid's Metamorphoses

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Willem Hessels van Elst (author)
,
Hendrick Goltzius (publisher)

Date

1590

Period

16th century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow at a bear, not knowing that it is his mother. She was turned into a bear by Juno 15 years earlier out of envy. In the background right, Jupiter places mother and son in the sky as constellations.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Willem Hessels van Elst , Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works)
Material paper
Dimensions 164 x 248 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-MK-3
Description
Subjects mythologies (religious concept) , figures (representations) , animal paintings , landscapes
Tags male sex; man Iconclass, youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass, archer's weapons: arrow Iconclass, archer's weapons: bow Iconclass, (story of) Callisto Iconclass, (story of) Jupiter (Zeus) Iconclass, hoofed animals: boar Iconclass, hunt ~ predatory animals (fox, lion) Iconclass, hunting, chase Iconclass, hunter Iconclass, trees Iconclass, shrubs Iconclass, rocks Iconclass, metamorphoses of female persons into mammals Iconclass, Callisto is hunted by her son Arcas Iconclass, (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MK-3
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11684/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-MK-3
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