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Light on the Damsel
LIGHT ON THE DAMSEL
Giorgio AnteiTitian referred to the mythological paintings with which he illustrated Ovid’s Metamorphoses as “poesie”. While it is also inspired by Ovid’s poem, Spranger’s Diana invokes not verses, but stories: beautiful, enchanted stories in which Nymphs and Satyrs wander happily, unclothed. But when echoes of the discovery of new worlds reach as far as Arcadia, the narrative changes.
