Arcas richt zijn pijl op Callisto, Virgilius Solis, 1569

Title(s)

Arcas richt zijn pijl op Callisto
Calisto & Arcas in sidera (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-22.050(V)

Catalogue reference

• Hollstein German 2301
• Hollstein German 1753

Description

Arcas richt zijn pijl op een beer, niet wetend dat het gaat om zijn van gedaante veranderde moeder Callisto. Linksboven worden Callisto en Arcas als sterrenbeelden aan de hemel geplaatst (de Grote Beer en de Kleine Beer).

Artist

• print maker: Virgilius Solis (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Georg Rab
• publisher: Sigmund Feyerabend
• publisher: erven Weigand Han

Place

print maker: Neurenberg
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main
publisher: Frankfurt am Main

Dating

1569

Material

• paper

Technique

letterpress printing

Measurements

height 80 mm × width 60 mm × height 100 mm × width 130 mm
height 150 mm × width 183 mm

What

• scrollwork, strapwork ~ ornament
• Callisto changed into a constellation: Jupiter changes Callisto into a constellation, when, transformed into a bear she is about to be shot by Arcas (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 506)
• Arcas changed into a constellation: when Arcas is about to shoot the bear into which his mother, Callisto, has been changed, Jupiter turns him into a constellation (Ovid, Metamorphoses II 506)

Acquisition

unknown 1994

Copyright

Public domain

Related

• Dochters van Cecrops openen de mand van Minerva

• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part III, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 186, 203, cat.nr. 2301, 1753
• Virgil Solis book illustrations : part II, Dieter Beaujean, Giulia Bartrum, p. 90, 106, cat.nr. 1753