The article concentrates on how the motif of the antique fable “Heracles and the Ox-Driver” transformed in a series of artefacts by Giovanni Castrucci, Lodovico Pozzoserrato and Pirro Ligorio from the 16th and 17th centuries. It demonstrates how at times the courses and interpretations of iconographic themes can be complex and difficult to trace, and how easily one can be swayed to conclude that a case is so simple and straightforward that there is in fact nothing to resolve.
Burinist Johann Blaschke, born in Bratislava and professionally active in Vienna, contributed to a series of publications, popularizing contemporary literature together with editions of antique literature on mythology, art or history. Facts from the artist's work and life - especially those on relationship between illustrators and publishers - indicate that book illustration at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries is relevant not only to art historians but also to those who research the book market of the epoch.
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