The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2003: Ovid’s “Metamorphoses” in the Art of Renaissance and Baroque Masters

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Paul Barolsky, commonwealth professor, University of Virginia. Paul Barolsky discusses the self-conscious artfulness of Ovid’s Metamorphoses and its relation to the visual wit of major European artists. Beginning with a discussion of Ovid’s myth of Io and Correggio’s rendering of the subject, Barolsky then explores Ovidian threads in the fabric of works by Perugino, Michelangelo, Cellini, Poussin, Rubens, and Velazquez. This podcast was recorded on November 9, 2003, at the National Gallery of Art, as part of the Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art series.