Tiresias Strikes Two Mating Snakes, from Ovid's Metamorphoses, ca. 1615

burin engraving, paper
168 x 254 mm
Inv. 2014-ML-2

Hendrick Goltzius

Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617
workshop / studio

Hendrick Goltzius

Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617
after

G. Rijckius

author

Robert de Baudous

Brussels ca. 1574 - 1575 - Wassenaar ca. 1659 - 1665
publisher

print room mythologies (religious concept) figures (representations) Classical Mythology and Ancient History snakes 17th century

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Tiresias struck two mating snakes in a forest. Thereupon he changed into a woman. Seven years later he changed back into a man, having again struck two mating snakes; this can be seen in the background on the left.

Artist	Hendrick Goltzius RKD Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617 workshop / studio
	Hendrick Goltzius RKD Brüggen 1558 - Haarlem 1617 after
	G. Rijckius authorAAT
	Robert de Baudous RKD Brussels ca. 1574 - 1575 - Wassenaar ca. 1659 - 1665 publisherAAT
Title	Tiresias Strikes Two Mating Snakes, from Ovid's Metamorphoses
Date	ca. 1615
Period	17th century
Location	Haarlem TGN
Medium and support	burin engraving AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings	printed inscription outside the depiction, centre below: 8
	printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: HG inv. R d Baud. ex.
	printed inscription outside the depiction, left middle: Hic duo serpentum coeuntia corpora, virgâ/ Vir violans, vixit septem post foeminâ soles:
	printed inscription outside the depiction, centre right: Octavo hos rursus, dum foemina percutit anno,/ reddita forma prior, sexusq. et imago virilis.
	printed inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: G. Rijckius
Collection	print room
Object type	burin engraving AAT
Inventory number	2014-ML-2
Acquisition credit	unknown 2014
Current whereabouts	Work currently not on display
Permalink	https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-ML-2
IIIF Manifest	https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11692/manifest.json

Art & Architecture Thesaurus	300417629 mythologies (religious concept) AAT 300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300263554 animal paintings AAT
Keywords Iconclass	25F42 snakes Iconclass 25G3 trees Iconclass 25H15 forest, wood Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass 41D263 walking-stick, staff, cane Iconclass 44G373 corporal punishment in public Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 9 Classical Mythology and Ancient History Iconclass 95A(TIRESIAS) (story of) Tiresias Iconclass 95A(TIRESIAS)41 Tiresias, striking two coupling serpents with his staff, is changed into a woman Iconclass 95A(TIRESIAS)411 seven years later, by the same action, Tiresias turns into a man again Iconclass
School / Style	Renaissance AAT

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