The sculpture of Pygmalion. Engraved illustration

The sculpture of Pygmalion. Engraved illustration from The Temple of the Muses, 1733. This book represented remarkable events of antiquity drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart (1673-1733). Pygmalion is a legendary figure of Cyprus. In Ovid's narrative poem Metamorphoses, Pygmalion was a sculptor who fell in love with a statue he had carved

1673-1733 1733 Cyprus Legendary Metamorphoses Muse Muses Narrative Ovid Ovids Picart Poem Pygmalion Remarkable Represented

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