Arcas, the son of Jupiter and Callisto, aims his arrow at a bear, not knowing that it is his mother. She was turned into a bear by Juno 15 years earlier out of envy. In the background right, Jupiter places mother and son in the sky as constellations.
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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Willem Hessels van Elst
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Hendrick Goltzius
RKD
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| Title | Arcas Aims his Arrow at Callisto, after Ovid's Metamorphoses |
| Date | 1590 |
| Period | 16th century |
| Location | Haarlem TGN |
| Medium and support | burin engraving AAT |
| Signatures, inscriptions, and markings | printed inscription outside the depiction, bottom left: 9 |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, left middle: Dictynne dilecta comes Junonis ob iram/ Ursa fit, et nari cuside pené perit . | |
| printed inscription outside the depiction, centre right: Non tulit omnipotens, natamq. Licáóne, colso/ Arcade cum nato sydera in axe locat. | |
| inscription on the reverse: [...] | |
| Collection | print room |
| Object type | burin engraving AAT |
| Inventory number | 2014-MK-3 |
| Acquisition credit |
unknown
2014 |
| Current whereabouts | Work currently not on display |
| Permalink | https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2014-MK-3 |
| IIIF Manifest | https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/11684/manifest.json |
| Art & Architecture Thesaurus |
300417629
mythologies (religious concept)
AAT
300189808 figures (representations) AAT 300263554 animal paintings AAT 300015636 landscapes AAT |
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| Keywords Iconclass |
25F24(BOAR)
hoofed animals: boar
Iconclass
25G3 trees Iconclass 25G31 shrubs Iconclass 25H112 rocks Iconclass 31A71 male sex; man Iconclass 31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass 43C11 hunting, chase Iconclass 43C11123 hunt ~ predatory animals (fox, lion) Iconclass 43C114 hunter Iconclass 45C15(ARROW) archer's weapons: arrow Iconclass 45C15(BOW) archer's weapons: bow Iconclass 48(+431) art (+ copy, copying ~ work of art) Iconclass 83(OVID, Metamorphoses) (scenes from) specific works of literature (OVID, Metamorphoses) Iconclass 92B1 (story of) Jupiter (Zeus) Iconclass 92C3921 (story of) Callisto Iconclass 97CC metamorphoses of female persons into mammals Iconclass 97CC211 Callisto is hunted by her son Arcas Iconclass |
| School / Style | Renaissance AAT |
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