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OVÍDIO. DIE VERWANDLUNGEN des Ovidii in zweyhundert und sechs und zwantzig Kupffern. [Augsburg]. - OVÍDIO DIE VERWANDLUNGEN des Ovidii in zweyhundert und sechs und zwantzig Kupffern . [Augsburg]: [Verlegung Johann Ulrich Krauß, Kupfferstechern], [c. 1694]. 2 ff. título e anteporta gravada; 113 ff. com duas vinhetas por folha, totalizando 226 gravuras a buril em cobre; legendas explicativas em alemão por baixo de cada vinheta: il.; 195 mm. Complete set of 226 scenes from Ovid's Metamorphoses , composed and engraved by Johann Ulrich Krauß in Augsburg at the end of the 17th century. Each episode is summarized in short, paired vignettes, with brief moralizing/descriptive captions in German. The series became one of the most widely distributed Baroque cycles on Ovid in the Germanic world, having seen several printings and reprints. The work is presented without a continuous printed text, functioning as a complete iconographic program of the poem. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !