Exhibition · 165 works
Myth & Metamorphosis
Bodies changing, gods interfering, and old fears wearing beautiful masks.
Myth is the archive’s contraband: impossible events smuggled intact through centuries. Gods arrive as weather. Desire becomes an animal. Punishment becomes landscape. Nothing stays safely itself.
These works belong together because transformation is their engine. Their old stories remain useful wherever ordinary language fails to contain appetite, terror, vanity, or wonder.
165Total works101Cleveland17The Met47SMK
On the walls
The hanging.
Twenty-four representative works balanced across source institutions. Search the full exhibition by title, maker, material, object number, or keyword.
Tusk with Figurative Relief
Paven tronende mellem en engel og ærkeenglen Mikael, der har nedstyrtet en tyrker
The Birth of Venus
Passion of Jesus Christ: The Descent into Limbo
The Wine Press
Ornamental fillet with the crucifixion and the virgin and child
Tiburtine Sibyl and the Emperor Augustus
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Virgin and Child with St. John
The Angel of the Ninth Sphere (from the Tarocchi, series A: Firmaments of the Universe, #49)
The Cassollette: Women Supporting an Urn
The Martyrdom of St. Peter and St. Paul
The Apocalypse: The Angel in the Sun Calling the Birds of Prey
And All Manner of Frightful Creatures Arise
Neptune Calming the Tempest That Aeolus Raised Against Aeneas's Fleet
Venus Wounded by a Rose's Thorn
Poesis
.webp)
Massacre of the Innocents (With the Fir Tree)
Massacre of the Innocents without the Fir Tree
The Sacrifice of Isaac
.webp)
Tobias and the Angel (small plate)
Adam and Eve
