Editing Myrrha (section)

=== Art ===

The ''Metamorphoses'' of Ovid has been illustrated by several artists through time. In 1563 in [[Frankfurt]], a [[German language|German]] bilingual translation by Johann Posthius was published, featuring the woodcuts of renowned German engraver [[Virgil Solis]]. The illustration of Myrrha depicts Myrrha's deceiving her father as well as her fleeing from him.<ref name='Solis'>{{cite web | url = http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/about.html | title = Ovid Illustrated: The Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Image and Text | access-date = 2011-02-27 | last = Kinney | first = Daniel |author2=Elizabeth Styron | publisher = University of Virginia Electronic Text Center}}</ref> In 1717 in London, a Latin-English edition of ''Metamorphoses'' was published, translated by [[Samuel Garth]] and with plates of French engraver [[Bernard Picart]]. The illustration of Myrrha was entitled ''The Birth of Adonis'' and featured Myrrha as a tree delivering Adonis while surrounded by women.<ref name='Picart picture'>{{cite web | url = http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/banier/banie098.html | title = Ovid Illustrated: The Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Image and Text - Fab. X. ''Myrrha changed to a tree; the Birth of Adonis'' | access-date = 2011-03-17 | last = Kinney | first = Daniel |author2=Elizabeth Styron | publisher = University of Virginia Electronic Text Center}}</ref><ref name='Picart'>{{cite web | url = http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/banier.html | title = Ovid Illustrated: The Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Image and Text - Abbé Banier's Ovid commentary Englished from Ovid's Metamorphoses (Garth tr., Amsterdam, 1732) | access-date = 2011-03-17 | last = Kinney | first = Daniel |author2=Elizabeth Styron | publisher = University of Virginia Electronic Text Center}}</ref><ref name='Garth preface'>{{cite web | url = http://etext.virginia.edu/latin/ovid/va1717/garth001.html | title = Ovid Illustrated: The Reception of Ovid's Metamorphoses in Image and Text - Preface of Garth Translation (London, 1717) and Banier-Garth (Amsterdam, 1732) | access-date = 2011-03-17 | last = Kinney | first = Daniel |author2=Elizabeth Styron | publisher = University of Virginia Electronic Text Center}}</ref> In 1857 French engraver [[Gustave Doré]] made a series of illustrations to Dante's ''Divine Comedy'', the depiction of Myrrha showing her in the eighth circle of Hell.<ref name="Alighieri205-210"/><ref name="Roosevelt212-227">{{Harvnb|Roosevelt|1885|pp=212–227}}</ref>

In 1690, Italian [[Baroque painting|Baroque]] painter [[Marcantonio Franceschini]] depicted Myrrha as a tree while delivering Adonis in ''The Birth of Adonis''. The painting was included in the art exhibition "Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575-1725" at the [[J. Paul Getty Museum]] at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California which lasted from December 16, 2008 through May 3, 2009. Normally the painting is exhibited in the [[Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden]] (English: Dresden State Art Collections) in Germany as a part of the ''[[Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister]]'' (English: Old Masters Picture Gallery).<ref name='Artknowledge'>{{cite web | url = http://www.artknowledgenews.com/jpaulgettymuseumcapturedemotionshtml.html | title = Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575-1725 Opens at the Getty Museum | access-date = 2011-03-15 | work = Art Knowledge News | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110427211956/http://www.artknowledgenews.com/jpaulgettymuseumcapturedemotionshtml.html | archive-date = 2011-04-27 | url-status = dead }}</ref><ref name='Getty Museum'>{{cite web | url = http://www.getty.edu/news/press/captured_emotions/captured_emotions_object_list.pdf | title = Object list: Captured Emotions: Baroque Painting in Bologna, 1575–1725 | access-date = 2011-03-15 | publisher = The [[J. Paul Getty Museum]], [[Getty Center]] and [[Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden]] | archive-date = 2010-07-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100713223643/https://www.getty.edu/news/press/captured_emotions/captured_emotions_object_list.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>

In 1984, artist [[Mel Chin]] created a sculpture based on Doré's illustration of Myrrha for the ''Divine Comedy''. The sculpture was titled "''Myrrha of the Post Industrial World''" and depicted a nude woman sitting on a rectangular pedestal. It was an outdoor project in Bryant Park, and the skin of the sculpture was made of perforated steel. Inside was a visible skeleton of [[polystyrene]]. When finished, the sculpture was 29 feet tall.<ref name="Times 1984">{{cite news | first = Susan | last = Heller Anderson |author2=David Bird | title = The See-Through Woman Of Bryant Park | date = 1984-08-14 | url = https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/14/nyregion/new-york-day-by-day-the-see-through-woman-of-bryant-park.html?scp=4&sq=myrrha&st=cse | work = The New York Times | access-date = 2011-01-26}}</ref>