Metamorphoses – Ovid and the ArtsOvid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art Ovid's Metamorphoses and its lasting impact on visual art The Roman poet Ovids Metamorphoses is among the most important works of Classical Antiquity, described in the seventeenth century as a Bible for artists. The compelling epic intertwines tales of chaos and the cosmos, encounters between gods, humans and nature, and the countless transformations to which they gave rise. For centuries,