The Creation of the Elements: Chronos and Cybele with Zeus, Hera and Poseidon
after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1550 - 1837
Materials
Oil on canvas
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257144.1
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Creation of the Elements: Chronos and Cybele with Zeus, Hera and Poseidon, after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588). Chronos (Time) in the centre, with his wife Cybele (Earth), and their children Zeus (Fire), Hera (Air) and Poseidon (Water).
Provenance
acquired by William John Bankes in 1838/9 from Town & Emmanuel, New Bond Street, as the supposed central element of a ceiling from the Palazzo Contarini degli Scrigni, Venice; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Credit line
Kingston Lacey, The Bankes Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Paolo Veronese (Verona 1528 -Venice 1588), artist