Plate 15: The Daughter of Croneus Changed into a Cow (Coronis in cornicem transformatur), from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'
1606
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 1/16 × 4 5/8 in. (10.3 × 11.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Accession Number
51.501.3866
Tags
Art Historical Context
Behold Plate 15 from Antonio Tempesta's captivating 1606 series of etchings illustrating Ovid's *Metamorph*, titled *The Daughter of Cron Changed into a Cow (onis in cornicemformatur)*. This etching, measuring just 4 1/16 × 4 5/8 inches, a dramatic moment from classical mythology: the transformation of Coronis, daughter of Phlegyas (often linked to Cronus in interpretive traditions), into a crow as punishment by Apollo for betrayal. Tempesta, a prolific Florentine artist of the late Mannerist and early Baroque periods, masterfully rendered the scene with dynamic figures including women, men, a...
About the Artist
Antonio Tempesta · 1555–1630
Antonio Tempesta (1555–1630), known as 'Il Tempestino,' was a Florentine painter and printmaker whose extraordinary output of approximately 1,700 etchings made him one of the most influential printmakers of the early Baroque period. Born in Florence and trained under Santi di Tito and the Flemish master Joannes Stradanus, he enrolled in the Accademia del Disegno in 1576 before relocating to Rome i...