Cronus1.0055_Mengs

Cronus1.0055_Mengs

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OGCMA s.v. "Cronus"

Anton Raphael Mengs, 1728-1779. (Figure of Time [Cronus/Saturn] in) "Allegory of History." 1772-1773, ceiling fresco in situ, Rome, Vatican Museums, Camera dei Papiri.

Saturn, with a melancholic expression, holding his scythe across his body sits on a floor as divinities treat history. History or Cleo occupies the center space of the scene.

Bibliography offered by Reid:
Honisch, Dieter. 1965. Anton Raphael Mengs und die Bildform des Frühklassizismus. Recklinghausen: Aurel Bongers.

The image at right is derived from Wikipedia Commons and presumed to be open-source.

Allegorical painting of winged figures, classical scholars, and a bearded old man with a scythe in an ornate golden frame

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1400 – 1990’s, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University Press.
Address concerns or inquiries to macfarlane@byu.edu.