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Les Metamorphoses d'Ouide : de nouueau traduites en françois, et enrichies de figures chacune selon son subiet : avec XV discours, contenans l'explication morale des fables

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D, Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D. Remedia amoris. French, Renouard, Nicolas, active 17th century, Briot, Isaac, 1585-1670, Passe, Crispijn van de, approximately 1565-1637, Vos, Maarten de, 1532-1603, Veuve de Mathieu Guillemot, d. 1637, Thiboust, Samuel, Guillemot, Matthieu, d. 1652 · 1621 · A Paris : Chez la veufue M. Guillemot, S. Thiboust, et Mathieu Guillemot ... · 28 pictures

This is a 1621 Paris edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, translated into French by Nicolas Renouard with engravings by Isaac Briot, issued for a learned French readership interested in classical myth and its moral reading. Its small framed plates each carry a caption title and show mythological episodes in landscape settings, with figures in classical dress, clear narrative gestures, and sparse trees and rocks that a designer could use for compact, storytelling vignettes.

Metamorphosis · Mythology, Classical

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