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2 giorni fa · This panel was created by Giulio Romano and his workshop as part of a comprehensive redecoration of the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua in the 1530s. It was made for the Sala di Giove (Room of Jupiter) as one of a series of 12 mythological panels depicting the rule of Jupiter, with allusions to Federigo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, who was Giulio’s patron.
30 mag 2021 · In the deafening silence of the Quinta del Sordo, Francisco Goya splattered his dining room wall with a bloodcurdling scene of appalling violence: a crazed mythological god devouring the body of his own son. Saturn Devouring His Son 1819-1823 It is hard to encapsulate the horror of this painted scene. Gruesome doesn’t even begin to describe it.
7 apr 2021 · The story of how the god Cronus (or Saturn) devouring his children led to the creation of the world as the ancient Greeks knew it.Credits: https://www.buzzfe...
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Chronos and his child by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, National Museum in Warsaw, a 17th-century depiction of Titan Cronus as "Father Time," wielding a harvesting scythe. In addition to the name, the story of Cronus eating his children was also interpreted as an allegory to a specific aspect of time held within Cronus' sphere of influence.
21 ott 2013 · Saturn therefore ate his children immediately after their births to confound the prophecy—or so he thought. Dodging fate rarely works—even among the gods. Saturn’s wife Rhea successfully tricked her husband and hid their youngest, Jupiter, who true to the prophecy later overthrew Saturn. But he didn’t kill him.
Saturn ate his sons partly because he feared their power when grown men. Goya based this design on a picture by Rubens of the same subject and in seventeenth-century emblem books Saturn signified the weariness of the aged for whom life has become burdensome. Hung in the same room in Goya's house, the 'Quinta del Sordo', Saturn also accompanied ...
27 ago 2022 · It provides an example of a son standing against his father only to become what he despised in his father by attacking his own children. In this way, the tale is powerfully ironic. Top image: The mythological painting Cronus and his child by Giovanni Francesco Romanelli, which in some myths has Cronus eating his children to take their "time,” because he somehow ended up as the “model ...