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OVID (43 BC-17 AD) LYONS: JEAN DE TOURNES

Diogenes Laertii De vita et moribus philosophorum libri X ; Excellente figueren ghesneden vuyten uppersten poëte Ouidius vuyt vyfthien boucken der veranderinghen met huerlier bedietsele

1557-59

RCIN 1081200

This illustrated edition of Ovid’s Metamorphoses was published in Lyons by Jean de Tournes. This was a popular text and numerous versions of these illustrations were published across Europe in the sixteenth century. One of them may have provided the inspiration for the scene of Diana and Actaeon on the backplate of RCIN 62997, which combines the figures of Actaeon and the goddess and her nymphs from one plate and the fountain with a winged putto from another.

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