A ruego de Latona, Apolo y Diana hacen perecer los hijos de Niobe · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: A ruego de Latona, Apolo y Diana hacen perecer los hijos de Niobe
Period: 1800-1850;
Geographic: Thebes; Ancient Greece
Description: The goddess Diana and her twin brother Apollo are depicted in the top left corner of the image with bows in their hands as they shoot and kill Niobe’s children. They are killing Niobe’s children because Niobe had declared herself better than Latona, the daughter of Titans. Niobe boasted about having fourteen children as opposed to Niobe who only had two. Latona ordered her children Diana and Apollo to shoot down every single one of Niobe’s children as punishment for her hubris. Niobe is illustrated standing with the children who have not been shot yet, trying to protect them from the gods.
Image Creator: D. José Assensio (Engraver)
Type: Text; Engraving
Identifier: mta:24981
Language: spa
Source Name: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio, Traducidos al Castellano con Algunas Notas Para su Inteligencia, Por Don Francisco Crivell [Metamorphoses or Transformations of Ovid, Translated into Castilian with Notes for your Intelligence, By Don Francisco Crivell]
Parent Collection: Metamorfoseos o Transformaciones de Ovidio Traducidos al Castellano. Engravings by D. Jose Assensio (1809)
Image: mta_24981_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Ovid's Metamorphoses
Subject: Latona; Apollo; Diana; Niobe; Hubris; Mythology; Gods; Goddesses