The Nurture of Jupiter Size:medium and hath expressed with admirable

and hath expressed with admirable art every circumstance about her

The entire scene is carefully arranged

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

which he later repeated on a larger scale and in upright format in 1788 (Petworth House

a poet and scientist of some distinction

The Nurture of Jupiter Size:medium and hath expressed with admirableThe 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