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The following description of the godless Diana at her bath was written by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE- 18 CE) for Book III of his Metamorphoses (c. 2-8 CE).
There is a grove of pine and cypresses known as Gargraphie, a hidden place most sacred to the celibate Diana; and deep in its recesses is a grotto artlessly fabricated by the genius of Nature, which, in imitating Art, had shaped a natural organic arch out of the living pumice and light tufa.
Before this little grotto, on the right, a fountain burbles; its pellucid stream widens to form a pool edged round with turf; here the great goddess of the woods would come to bathe her virgin limbs in its cool waters, when hunting wearied her.
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This note was started while working on 2005.15.FA- Corot's Bath of Diana and I decided to try and use it in the same way I included a Wordsworth poem for Hawthorne's Bouquet of Daffodils. Both are intended to be "trials" on how literary sources can beneficially be provided as interpretive tools for related works.
The rule currently links directly to the Corot painting, but if other objects with this subject are identified, the rule can be adjusted to link to more than one work.
I removed the citation line because the more important citation appears in the introductory lines. If needed, the original DMA source was: Adapted from- DMA Label copy (2005.15.FA) from Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea, April 2010.
Getty ULAN entry on Ovid:
Ovid (Roman poet, 43 B.C.E- 17 or 18 C.E.), Metamorphoses, Book III, c. A.D. 2-8
Born: Sulmona (L'Aquila province, Abruzzi, Italy) (inhabited place)
Died: Constanţa (Constanţa county, Romania) (inhabited place)
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General Description
The following description of the godless Diana at her bath was written by the Roman poet Ovid (43 BCE- 18 CE) for Book III of his Metamorphoses (c. 2-8 CE).
There is a grove of pine and cypresses known as Gargraphie, a hidden place most sacred to the celibate Diana; and deep in its recesses is a grotto artlessly fabricated by the genius of Nature, which, in imitating Art, had shaped a natural organic arch out of the living pumice and light tufa.
Before this little grotto, on the right, a fountain burbles; its pellucid stream widens to form a pool edged round with turf; here the great goddess of the woods would come to bathe her virgin limbs in its cool waters, when hunting wearied her.
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This note was started while working on 2005.15.FA- Corot's Bath of Diana and I decided to try and use it in the same way I included a Wordsworth poem for Hawthorne's Bouquet of Daffodils. Both are intended to be "trials" on how literary sources can beneficially be provided as interpretive tools for related works.
The rule currently links directly to the Corot painting, but if other objects with this subject are identified, the rule can be adjusted to link to more than one work.
I removed the citation line because the more important citation appears in the introductory lines. If needed, the original DMA source was: Adapted from- DMA Label copy (2005.15.FA) from Coastlines: Images of Land and Sea, April 2010.
Getty ULAN entry on Ovid:
Ovid (Roman poet, 43 B.C.E- 17 or 18 C.E.), Metamorphoses, Book III, c. A.D. 2-8
Born: Sulmona (L'Aquila province, Abruzzi, Italy) (inhabited place)
Died: Constanţa (Constanţa county, Romania) (inhabited place)
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