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Mastery

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Ovid Met.

Giovanni di Spagna, 1450 – 1528, fresco, Galleria Capitolina, Rome

A classical painting of a man playing a stringed instrument, with figures in a landscape on facing pages.

Apollo plays the viola da gamba on Helicon, Perseus decapitates Medusa, Pegasus stamps out Hippocrene.

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.