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Johann Friedrich Bolt ..Amor and Psyche..1797

Max Ditmar Henkel, Ovid scholar

Apollo and Marsyas[1] by Pietro Perugino on the cover of Jean Seznec's La Survivance des dieux antiques[2].

La Survivance des dieux antiques is a work by Jean Seznec, published in 1940. Thanks largely to Seznec, it is widely understood that the Olympian gods, and the earlier spirits of field and spring, did not die with the advent of Christianity, but survived Christianization. They went underground to feature in folk culture, took on strange new guises and were transformed in various ways such as illustrated Ovids and the moralized Ovids, their myths recast to suit some of the mythic saints of Late Antiquity, and their imagery permeated Medieval intellectual and emotional life. The transformed mythology re-emerged in the iconography of the early Renaissance in Italy, with new attributes that the ancients had never imagined, and enjoyed tremendous renewed popularity during the Renaissance.

The book was translated in English in 1953 by Pantheon Books as The Survival of the Pagan Gods: Mythological Tradition in Renaissance Humanism and Art.

William Henry Goodyear

Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (1994) is a book by William Eamon Books of Secrets.

"The Secreti del reverendo donno Alessio piemontese was an instant best-seller. The first edition sold out within a year ... secrets appeared, and these were followed by a multitude of books of secrets modeled upon the original Secreti. ...

Laurens Janszoon Coster Romeyn de Hooghe

• Alan Hume, 85, British cinematographer.