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Saturn (1636) by Rubens. Saturn or Saturn Devouring His Son is a 1636 painting by the Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens, now in the Museo del Prado, in Madrid. [1]It was commissioned for the Torre de la Parada by Philip IV of Spain and shows the influence of Michelangelo on Rubens, which he had picked up on his journey to Italy.
Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting by Spanish artist Francisco Goya. It is traditionally considered a depiction of the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus , whom the Romans called Saturn , eating one of his children out of fear of a prophecy by Gaea that one of his children would overthrow him.
There has been debate about the extent to which Goya was influenced by Rubens. Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son, c. 1819–1823 suggests a familiarity with Rubens' 1636 version in the Prado. Kenneth Clark considered The Second of May 1808 an "artistic failure ... perhaps he could not shake off the memory of similar compositions by Rubens". [2]
Saturn Devouring His Son, by Francisco Goya Nocturne in Black and Gold – The Falling Rocket , by James Abbott McNeill Whistler Whistler's Mother , by James Abbott McNeill Whistler
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Saturn Devouring His Son is a painting, titled by art critics, created by Spanish artist Francisco Goya and painted onto the walls of his home along with 13 others. According to the traditional interpretation, it depicts the Greek myth of the Titan Cronus (in the title Romanised to Saturn), who, fearing that he would be overthrown by his ...
Saturn Devouring His Son in the Quinta de Goya, in 1874. [2] Photograph by Jean Laurent. This painting was surrounded by a paper framework. Quinta del Sordo (English: Villa of the Deaf One), or Quinta de Goya, was an extensive estate and country house situated on a hill in the old municipality of Carabanchel on the outskirts of Madrid.
Saturn's Children may refer to: the children of Saturn (mythology) in Roman myth; Saturn, fearing his children usurping him, ate them at birth; Saturn's Children (Duncan and Hobson book), a 1995 political science book by Alan Duncan and Dominic Hobson; Saturn's Children, a 2008 science fiction novel by Charlie Stross