As in Ovid, so in Renaissance art. From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: June 22, 1998| Author: Barolsky, Paul | COPYRIGHT 1998 Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Ovid's contributions to Renaissance art and art theory are best seen in his work 'Metamorphoses' because the work determined the subjects of numerous works of art during the period. However, the extent to which his sense of poetry helped shape Renaissance notions of poetic transformation in the visual arts is not sufficiently appreciated. His contribution is more than the Renaissance theories of imitation and more than the sentiments expressed in elegiac painting. Ovid passed on a legacy of i...

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