The Nurture of Jupiter Size:medium The date is illegible

The date is illegible

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

a studio or eighteenth-century copy of a picture by Van de Velde of unknown whereabouts

He had certainly travelled to Italy

The Nurture of Jupiter Size:medium The date is illegibleThe 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