The castles of the Loire

Text extract from chapter 'Actæon' of book III of Ovid's Metamorphoses and used by painter Francesco Primaticcio to realise the portrait of Diana of Poitiers exposed in the Castle of Chenonceau

• Mythology
• Court painting
• Renaissance
• Ovid

Text extract from chapter “Adonis” of book X of Ovid's Metamorphoses and used by painter Jean MONIER to realise the canvas representing “The Death of Adonis” exposed in the second storey of the Château de Cheverny

• Mythology
• Court painting
• Ovid
• Jean Mosnier

Text extract from book IV of Ovid's Metamorphoses and that has inspired to painter Jean MONIER one of the pieces representing Perseus and Andromeda on the celling of the King's bedroom of the second storey of the Château de Cheverny

• Mythology
• Court painting
• Ovid
• Jean Mosnier