Peter Paul Rubens · 1636
Saturn Devouring His Son (Rubens)
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The grey-bearded Titan Saturn, scythe in hand, bites into the chest of a screaming infant against a dark sky lit by three small stars. Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Up to 8 × 16.9 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Saturn Devouring His Son (Rubens)
Philip IV of Spain commissioned the painting for the Torre de la Parada, and it shows the influence of Michelangelo that Rubens absorbed in Italy. The three stars at the top represent the planet Saturn as Galileo described it a few years earlier: his telescope could not separate the rings from the planet. Rubens shows Saturn taking a bite of his child, whereas in the myth he swallowed his children whole.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Peter Paul Rubens
Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens's highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history. His unique and immensely popular Baroque style emphasised movement, colour, and sensuality, which followed the immediate, dramatic artistic style promoted in the Counter-Reformation. Rubens was a painter producing altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects. He was also a prolific designer of cartoons for the Flemish tapestry workshops and of frontispieces for the publishers in Antwerp.
All Peter Paul Rubens prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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