Metamorphoses Rijksmuseum

Composed more that 2,000 years ago, Ovid’s monumental poem Metamorphoses describes a world of transformations — of gods and humans into animals, plants or stone.

This show brings together more than 80 masterpieces from museums and collections around the world, by artists such as Titian, Correggio, Cellini, Caravaggio, Rubens, Rodin, Brancusi and Bourgeois. Each of them, in their own time, rivalled Ovid – one of antiquity’s greatest poets – in imaginative power and artistic vision. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Rijksmuseum and Galleria Borghese, Rome.