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The project Metamorphosis. Titian 2012 was part of the Cultural Olympiad organized in Great Britain for the 2012 Olympic Games. With the purpose of showing the world the works of the national artists of all disciplines, Titian's Diana and Callisto (1556-1559), Diana and Actaeon (1556-1559) and The Death of Actaeon (ca. 1559-1575) were exhibited for the first time since the eighteenth century alongside the responses of a heterogeneous constellation of contemporary artists commissioned for the event. In this article, I look at the collection of poems published for Metamorphosis. Titian 2012 through the lens of the aesthetic and poetical transformations of the female body. The theoretical framework which supports my discussion is Mieke Bal's perception of framing as a travelling concept in her interdisciplinary theoretical travelling across the humanities. The article demonstrates how the general project of Metamorphosis. Titian 2012 and the poems under analysis resemantize Titian's Poesies and its main classical source, Ovid's Metamorphoses, under a literary, cultural, and political perspective which reflects a particular reception of the artist, and his Ovidian source in the twenty-first century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]