The Fall of the Titans
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Statens Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark |
The Fall of the Titans is an
Haarlem Mannerists, and a display of the artist's ability to devise and depict a large number of varied poses for the male nudes.[1]
In
pantheon of Greek deities.[2]
Just as the Titan Cronus overthrew his father Uranus, the Titans were overthrown by Cronus's children (Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Hestia, Hera and Demeter), the core Olympian deities, in the Titanomachy (or "War of the Titans"), at the end of which they were imprisoned in Tartarus, a Greek version of Hell. Their arrival there is depicted in the painting.
The painting was bought by King Christian IV of Denmark in 1621, and followed with most of the royal collection into public ownership in the Statens Museum in the 19th century.[3]
Notes
References
- Eva de la Fuente Pedersen, Senior Research Curator at Statens Museum: Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562–1638), The Fall of the Titans (The Titanomachia), 1588–90, Statens Museum for Kunst. Retrieved on 14 January 2015.
External links
Media related to The Fall of the Titans at Wikimedia Commons
