The Nurture of Jupiter Size:medium Until 1880 attributed to Cuyp

Until 1880 attributed to Cuyp

Jan Both was one of the most influential and important of the Dutch Italianate painters

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Herod ordered that the young children of the city be put to death

The Nurture of Jupiter Size:medium Until 1880 attributed to CuypThe 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