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Mars and Silvia, Peter Paul Rubens
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Mars and Rhea Silvia, Peter Paul Rubens
1616/1617
Oil on Canvas
H 46 cm, W 66 cm
Inv.-Nr. GE115
Lichtensteinmuseun
Rhea Silvia is the mother of the twin brothers Romulus and Remus in Roman mythology. She was the daughter of Numitor Silvius, king of Alba Longa.
When Numitor's brother Amulius became king by force, he made Rhea Silvia a Vestal Virgin, so she would not have children who could be kings instead of him. But the god Mars seduced her and she had the twins Romulus and Remus. Because of that she was buried alive (put in the earth so she died because she could not breathe), which was the common punishment for a Vestal Virgin who did not remain a virgin. Her sons were thrown into the Tiber, but were saved by the river god Tiberinus,
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Peter Paul Rubens
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Aeneas And His Family Departing From Troy, 1602/3
Death of Hippolytus, c. 1610/12
Prometheus Bound, 1611/12
Jupiter and Callisto, c. 1613
Ixion with Nephele, (1615)
Satyr and Maiden with Basket of Fruit, c 1615
Venus and Adonis , c 1615
Venus at a Mirror, 1615
Diana with Nymphs, c 1615
Jupiter and Ganymede, Grangerel, engraving after Rubens 1786/1808
* The daughters of Cecrops finding the infant Erichthonius of Athens, 1616
The hunt of Meleagros and Atalante (Calydonian Boar) c. 1617/28
Mars and Rhea Silvia, , c. 1616/7 (C)
The Rape of the daughters of Leucippus, c. 1618
Head of Medusa, c. 1618
Drunken Silenus, c. 1618
Perseus and Andromeda , 1620/1
Perseus Freeing Andromeda , c. 1622
Stormy Landscape with Philemon and Baucis, c. 1625
The Rape of Europa, 1628/9
Achilles, 1630/5
The Judgement of Paris, c. 1632
Venus and Adonis , c 1635
Saturn devouring his son. , 1636
Mercury and Argus , c 1636
* Clytie Grieving, 1636
The Fall of Icarus, 1636
The Three Graces, c. 1636/8
The Apotheosis of Hercules, 1637/8
* Tereus Confronted with the Head of his Son Itys, 1636/38
The Three Graces with a Basket of Roses , Stockholm, Nationalmuseum
The Judgement of Paris, c. 1638/9
Diana and her Nymphs Surprised by the Fauns, 1638/40
Venus in Fur-Coat, 1630/40
Venus, Mars and Cupid, (1577-1640)
Perseus and Andromeda , 1639/40
Deucalion and Pyrrha, s (1577-1640) 26 x 42 cm , Prado Museum
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