Dido, Queen of Carthage

Philemon and Baucis by Rembrandt van Rijn

Dutch, 1658

oil on panel transferred to panel

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bacchus Transforming into Trees the Thracian Women Who Murdered Orpheus (and detail) by Battista Dossi, a modello for one of the tapestries of the Metamorphoses for which Dossi was paid in 1545

Italian, c. 1545

pen and ink with white and grey wash on paper

Royal Collection Trust

Apollo and Daphne (with detail of Apollo) by Luca Giordano (called Fa Presto)

Italian, possibly 1680s

oil on canvas

private collection

Landscape with the Judgment of Midas by Gillis van Conixloo

Flemish, 1588

oil on panel

Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden

The Age of Gold, The Age of Silver, The Age of Bronze, and The Age of Iron, from the series Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1589

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Thisbe Frightened by the Lion and Deucalion and Pyrrha Repeopling the Earth, and The Giants Climbing the Heavens, from the series Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1589-1590

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Coronis Changed into a Crow, Daphne Changed into a Laurel Tree, and Battus Changed into a Stone, from the series Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1589-1590

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Diana Discovering the Pregnancy of Callisto and Juno Turning Callisto into a Bear, from the series Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by workshop of Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, c. 1590

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Apollo Killing Python, Cadmus Killing the Dragon, and Arcas Preparing to Kill His Mother, from the series Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by workshop of Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1589-1590

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Clymene Urging Phaeton to Find Helios, Phaeton Asking for the Chariot, Phaeton Driving the Chariot of the Sun, The Fall of Phaeton, and Phaeton's Sisters Changed into Poplars and Cygnus into a Swan, from the series Ovid’s Metamorphoses, by the workshop of Hendrick Goltzius

Dutch, 1589-1590

engraving

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Landscape with Baucis and Philemon, after the painting by Peter Paul Rubens in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna 

Flemish, 1630

oil on panel

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Perseus and the Origin of Coral by Claude Lorrain. French, c. 1671 Metropolitan Museum of Art.

From the Met:

Detail from Galatea by Gustave Moreau. French, c. 1880. Oil on wood. Musée d'Orsay. 

P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Amores 3.11.7

“Suffer and endure! One day this grief will be useful to you.” 

P. Ovidius Naso (Ovid), Metamorphoses 15.234-235

“Time, the devourer of things, and you, envious old age, destroy all, and little by little you consume all things, having been corrupted, with the teeth of eternity and slow death.”