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Title: Opi Saturni Coniuge
Subject: Opis; Gods; Goddesses; Jupiter; Saturn; Titan; Infanticide; Important Women; Famous Women; Ops
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: Ancient Greece; Ancient Rome
Description: Ops, the wife of Saturn, is depicted in this image laying in a bed after just having given birth to her children, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto. Jupiter is illustrated being carried away to safety by a servant on the right side of the engraving. Boccaccio explains that Saturn and Ops’ brother, Titan, planned to kill the new born babies to avoid them growing up and defeating them. Saturn is illustrated with his hands outstretched towards baby Jupiter. Titan is at the foot of Ops’ bed with a sword in his hand.
Image Creator: Anonymous (Engraver)
Type: Text; Woodcut Engraving
Identifier: mta:18125
Language: lat
Source Name: Iohannis Bocacij in librum de claris mulieribus
Parent Collection: 1487 Leuven
Image: mta_18125_OBJ.jpg