Changing Paintings: Rubens’ Metamorphoses 2

Changing Paintings: Rubens’ Metamorphoses 2

This second article concludes my virtual exhibition of a selection of Peter Paul Rubens’ paintings of myths from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), The Calydonian Boar Hunt (c 1611-12), oil on panel, 59.2 × 89.7 cm, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Wikimedia Commons. Rubens and his workshop painted several different accounts of Ovid’s great story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt. This is the first, from about 1611-12, with Mel…