Ovid's remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best-known and most popular works of classical literature, exerting a pervasive influence on later European literature and culture. A vast repository of mythic material as well as a sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences. As the poem's focus on transformation and transgression c...

Kvinnan klamrade sig fast vid hans arm.“Nu är det två. Nu är det två. I morse en man, nu en kvinna. Nu är det två …”“Det har kanske inte …” Började Jerome men avbröts av att kvinnan begravde sina naglar i hans hand, hennes ögon blev ljusa och hon öppnade munnen för att släppa ut ett långsamt stilla ljud.Jerome stelnade och så plötsligt slog en klocka. Ett slag, som från en enorm kyrkklocka, fyllde hela rummet och tog över varje tanke.

This study examines how an artist construed himself as cultural heritage by the turn of the 19th century, how this heritage was further construed after his death, and how the artworks can be made to further new approaches and insights through a digital archive (aroseniusarchive.se). The study employs the concept of 'staging' to capture the means used by the artist, as well as by reception, in this construal. The question of 'staging' involves not only how the artist has been called forth f...