Dish on a Low Foot with Cronos and Philyra

1539 (Renaissance)

23.9 cm 5 cm

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This dish portrays the sea nymph Philyra and Cronos, a leader of the Titans, the generation of divinities preceding the Olympian gods. According to Greek mythology, Cronus fell in love with Philyra, and when his wife Rhea discovered them together, he quickly transformed himsel...

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Don Marcello Massarenti Collection, Rome; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1902, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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