Vertumnus1.0013_Goltzius

Vertumnus1.0013_Goltzius

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Reijksmuseum
OGCMA s.v. "Vertumnus"
OGCMA s.v. "Pomona"

Hendrik Goltzius, 1558-1617, "Vertumnus and Pomona", oil on canvas, 1613; Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, inv. A2217.

Goltzius captures the moment in Ovid's original narrative when the Italic orchard god disguised as a crone woos Pomona in her lush orchard.

Bibliography:
Sluijter, E.J. 2007. "Ovidius' Herscheppingen herschapen, over de popularisering van mythologische thematiek in beeld en woord," De zeventiende eeuw 23:55.

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Goltzius's Vertumnus and Pomona, the god of seasons disguised as an old woman wooing the goddess of fruit

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.
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