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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.
When the sixth child, Zeus, was born, Rhea sought Gaia to devise a plan to save them and to eventually get retribution on Cronus for his acts against his father and children. Rhea secretly gave birth to Zeus in Crete , and handed Cronus a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes, also known as the Omphalos Stone, which he promptly swallowed, thinking ...
When Cronus learnt that he was destined to be overthrown by one of his children like his father before him, he swallowed all the children Rhea bore as soon as they were born. When Rhea had her sixth and final child, Zeus, she spirited him away and hid him in Crete , giving Cronus a rock to swallow instead, thus saving her youngest son who would ...
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.
To try to prevent this, Cronus swallows all of his children as soon as they are born. Rhea seeks out help in hiding her youngest son, Zeus, Gaia hears her distress and gives her a perfectly infant shaped rock that weights and looks the same as a baby to give to Cronus. Zeus later goes on to defeat his father and become the leader of the Olympians.
Cronus (called Saturn in Roman mythology), once the most powerful of the gods, was dismayed by a prophecy telling him that he would one day be deposed by one of his children, just as he had formerly overthrown his own father. So as not to suffer the same fate, Cronus decided to consume all his children right after birth.
Metis gave her cousin Zeus a potion to cause his father Cronus, the supreme ruler of the cosmos, to vomit out his siblings their father had swallowed out of fear of being overthrown. [6] After the Titanomachy , the 10-year war among the immortals, she was pursued by Zeus and they got married.
In Hesiod's Theogony, the Titan Cronus swallows the first five of his children—Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, and Poseidon—once each is born, and so, their mother, Rhea, gives Cronus a stone to swallow in place of their sixth child, Zeus; she then hides the infant in Crete, though little is said of his upbringing (and there is no mention of ...