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The Fall of Phaeton is a painting by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, featuring the ancient Greek myth of Phaeton (Phaethon), a recurring theme in visual arts. Rubens chose to depict the myth at the height of its action, with the thunderbolts hurled by Zeus to the right.
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The Fall of Phaeton (Rubens) The Fall of the Titans; Farewell of Hector and Andromache; G. Galatea (Raphael) The Garden of Pan; The Golden Age (painting) H. Helen of ...
The Fall of Phaeton, c. 1604/1605, probably reworked c. 1606/1608, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Rubens travelled to Spain on a diplomatic mission in 1603, delivering gifts from the Gonzagas to the court of Philip III . [ 22 ]
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Devastating epidemics of the plague had swept through Europe beginning in the sixteenth century, and Rubens was commissioned by the Brotherhood of Saint Roch to paint an altarpiece for the Church of St Martin in Aalst, Belgium, where the lay brotherhood were installing an altar to Saint Roch, patron saint of invalids, and specially invoked against the plague.
The fall of Phaeton by Jacob Jordaens. Although Helios himself is present in their works, for the two earliest ancient Greek authors, Homer and Hesiod, the chariot and the four horses that pull Helios each morning do not seem to exist at all; the oldest work in which they appear being the Homeric Hymns. [11] [12] [13]