Images from Ovid's Metamorphoses

Visual Renderings from the Middle Ages to the Present

Pythagoras

12th century stone carving, in Chartres Cathedral, France

Atalanta

Painting by Guido Reni (1575-1642), around 1612

Deucalion and Pyrrha

Illustration by Virgil Solis, from a 1562 edition of the Metamorphoses

Narcissus

Painting by Caravaggio (1573-1610), 1598

Narcissus

Painting by John Waterhouse, 1903

Lycaeon

Illustration by Hendrik Goltzius (1558-1617)

Tereus and Procne, surrounded by Furies

Illustration by Virgil Solis, from a 1562 edition of the Metamorphoses

Tereus, Procne, and Philomela

Illustration by Antonio Tempesta, from a 16th-century edition of the Metamorphoses

Pygmalion

Painting by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-1898)

Pygmalion

Painting by Jean-Leon Gerome (1824-1904)

Pygmalion

Painting by Paul Delvaux (1897-1994), 1939

Daedalus

Painting by Henry Matisse, 1947 (in the Metropolitan Museum of Art)