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Franz Xaver Wagenschön a "Metamorphoses d`Ovide en rondeaux"

Title in English Franz Xaver Wagenschön and "Metamorphoses d`Ovide en rondeaux"
Authors

MILTOVÁ Radka

Year of publication 2005
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Opuscula Historiae Artium
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Arts

Citation
Field Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Keywords Franz Xaver Wagenschön; baroque drawing; illustrated prints of Ovid`s Metamorphoses
Description The ample oeuvre of the Viennese academic painter Franz Xaver Wagenschön contains numerous works with mythological themes. Among the disparate drawings depicting mythological scenes stands out a homogenous set of twelve pen drawings from collections of the Silesian Museum in Opava to which it is possible to add another drawing from a private collection. Drawings from Opava show partly unusual and rare themes and they are based on stories from Ovid`s Metamorphoses. This article offers some new thematic identifications and comparisons of Wagenschön`s ovidian drawings, namely with illustrated prints of Ovid`s Metamorphoses.

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