The Nurture of Jupiter

The Nurture of JupiterThe events around the birth and nurture of the infant Jupiter are described by four ancient Greek and Latin poets: Hesiod, Callimachus, Ovid and Virgil. A prophecy had warned the god Saturn that one of his children would defeat him and rule the universe in his place; one after the other he swallowed all five of the children he had fathered with Rhea, to avoid the prediction. When Jupiter was born, Rhea saved him by feeding Saturn a stone wrapped in

More than three hundred and fifty years after she was painted - Rembrandt's ability to conjure up the sense of a living being out of paint can still astound

revealing an astonishingly bold mixture of colours in the model's face that would not seem out of place in a twenty-first century portrait

where she lived for thirty years in penitence

The armour

It was previously thought that this painting was not by Cuyp but a pupil under the master's 'supervision or tutelage'

as they appeared on the coat-of-arms of the reigning pope

The composition seems to be based on a lost portrait by Titian of the Emperor Charles V Bames refers to an oil sketch of the head and a possible modello

Poussin represents here the exact moment in which Armida's hatred is turned into undying passion

the Virgin and the Magdalen This seems to be the group which appears in a comparable composition by Vald

Copy of a studio variant (the so-called 'Barberini type') of Titian's original in the Prado

Charles Small Pybus (1766-1810) was MP for Dover from 1790 and Lord of the Admiralty 1791-7 and of the Treasury 1797-1803

The composition is not directly related to any known original by Claude