Tiresias Strikes Two Mating Snakes, from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Public Domain

Artist(s) / maker(s)

Robert de Baudous (publisher)
,
G. Rijckius (author)
,
Hendrick Goltzius (after)

Date

ca. 1615

Period

17 century

Collection

Museum of Fine Arts Ghent
Tiresias struck two mating snakes in a forest. Thereupon he changed into a woman. Seven years later he changed back into a man, having again struck two mating snakes; this can be seen in the background on the left.

More about this work

Features
Artist(s) / maker(s) Robert de Baudous , G. Rijckius , Hendrick Goltzius VIAF RKD Wikidata
Type burin engraving
Category prints (visual works) AAT
Material paper
Dimensions 168 x 254 mm
Location Work currently not on display
Object number 2014-ML-2
Description
Subjects mythologies (religious concept) , figures (representations) , animal paintings
Tags Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass, snakes Iconclass, male sex; man Iconclass, female sex; woman Iconclass, corporal punishment in public Iconclass, Tiresias, striking two coupling serpents with his staff, is changed into a woman Iconclass, seven years later, by the same action, Tiresias turns into a man again Iconclass, (story of) Tiresias Iconclass, forest, wood Iconclass, trees Iconclass, walking-stick, staff, cane Iconclass, art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass
Linked open data
Data PURL https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-ML-2
IIIF manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11692/manifest.json
LIDO XML https://datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_lido&identifier=oai:datahub.vlaamsekunstcollectie.be:mskgent.be:2014-ML-2
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