The Fall of the Titans (The Titanomachia)  1590

by Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem

The Roman poet Ovid’s Metamorphoses relate the story of a reigning race of gods consisting of the titans, the cyclopes, and the giants who were challenged to a cosmic battle by the Olympian gods headed by Zeus. [br] The fierce battle, the so-called titanomachia, ended with the defeat of the titans whom Zeus cast down into Tartaros, the underworld, from where they cause e...
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Courtesy of the National Gallery of Denmark